Start building the bz2 module on Windows.
CAUTION: The Python test still has many failures, but I'm out of time
for this now (already took much longer than hoped to get this far).
The base bz2 library does pass its own tests (see next).
CAUTION: People building on Windows have to download and build tne
bz2 compression libraries now. See PCbuild\readme.txt for complete
instructions.
diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index 0109317..5073a41 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -88,6 +88,34 @@
zlib-1.1.4\ when you do a clean, so if you want to rebuild zlib.lib
you need to clean up zlib-1.1.4\ by hand.
+bz2
+ Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library. Homepage
+ http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
+ Download the source tarball, bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz.
+ Unpack into dist\bzip2-1.0.2. WARNING: If you using WinZip, you
+ must disable its "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion" feature (under
+ Options -> Configuration -> Miscellaneous -> Other) for the duration.
+ Don't bother trying to use libbz2.dsp with MSVC. After 10 minutes
+ of fiddling, I couldn't get it to work. Perhaps it works with
+ MSVC 5 (I used MSVC 6). It's better to run the by-hand makefile
+ anyway, because it runs a helpful test step at the end.
+ cd into dist\bzip2-1.0.2, and run
+ nmake -f makefile.msc
+ [Note that if you're running Win9X, you'll need to run vcvars32.bat
+ before running nmake (this batch file is in your MSVC installation).
+ TODO: make this work like zlib (in particular, MSVC runs the prelink
+ step in an enviroment that already has the correct envars set up).
+ ]
+ The make step should yield any warnings or errors, and should end
+ by displaying 6 blocks each terminated with
+ FC: no differences encountered
+ If FC finds differences, see the warning abou WinZip above (when I
+ first tried it, sample3.ref failed due to CRLF conversion).
+ All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.2\libbz2.lib, which the Python
+ project links in.
+
+
+
bsddb
Python wrapper for the BSD database 1.85. Requires db.1.85.win32.zip,
from the "bsd db" link at