Update build procedure to VC 7.1 and newer versions of several packages.
diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index 4cacc9a..6367a90 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-Building Python using VC++ 6.0 or 5.0
+Building Python using VC++ 7.1
-------------------------------------
This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows
-95, 98 and NT. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x or 5.x.
+95, 98 and NT. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1
+(a.k.a. Visual Studio .NET 2003).
(For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.)
-All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.dsw" in MSVC++, select
-the Debug or Release setting (using Build -> Set Active Configuration...),
-and build the projects.
+All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.sln" in MSVC++, select
+the Debug or Release setting (using "Solution Configuration" from
+the "Standard" toolbar"), and build the projects.
The proper order to build subprojects:
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@
to the subsystems they implement; see SUBPROJECTS below)
When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
-their name: python21_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on.
+their name: python24_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on.
SUBPROJECTS
-----------
@@ -83,16 +84,16 @@
Go to
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/
and download
- tcl843-src.zip
- tk843-src.zip
+ tcl845-src.zip
+ tk845-src.zip
Unzip into
- dist\tcl8.4.3\
- dist\tk8.4.3\
+ dist\tcl8.4.5\
+ dist\tk8.4.5\
respectively.
Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 6 on Win98SE)
---------------
- cd dist\tcl8.4.3\win
+ cd dist\tcl8.4.5\win
run vcvars32.bat [necessary even on Win2K]
nmake -f makefile.vc
nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcl84 install
@@ -107,9 +108,9 @@
Build Tk
--------
- cd dist\tk8.4.3\win
- nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.3
- nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.3 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcl84 install
+ cd dist\tk8.4.5\win
+ nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.5
+ nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.5 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcl84 install
XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?
@@ -160,6 +161,8 @@
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).
+
+ # XXX: it fails with vc 7.1, so the tests are skipped for now.
All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.2\libbz2.lib, which the Python
project links in.
@@ -169,35 +172,36 @@
Go to Sleepycat's download page:
http://www.sleepycat.com/download/
- and download version 4.1.25. The file name is db-4.1.25.NC.zip.
+ and download version 4.2.42. The file name is db-4.2.52.NC.zip.
XXX with or without strong cryptography? I picked "without".
Unpack into
- dist\db-4.1.25
+ dist\db-4.2.52
- [If using WinZip to unpack the db-4.1.25.NC distro, that requires
+ [If using WinZip to unpack the db-4.2.52.NC distro, that requires
renaming the directory (to remove ".NC") after unpacking.
]
Open
- dist\db-4.1.25\docs\index.html
+ dist\db-4.2.52\docs\index.html
and follow the Windows instructions for building the Sleepycat
software. Note that Berkeley_DB.dsw is in the build_win32 subdirectory.
Build the Release version ("build_all -- Win32 Release").
- XXX We're actually linking against Release_static\libdb41s.lib.
+ XXX We're actually linking against Release_static\libdb42s.lib.
XXX This yields the following warnings:
"""
Compiling...
_bsddb.c
Linking...
Creating library ./_bsddb.lib and object ./_bsddb.exp
-LINK : warning LNK4049: locally defined symbol "_malloc" imported
-LINK : warning LNK4049: locally defined symbol "_free" imported
-LINK : warning LNK4049: locally defined symbol "_fclose" imported
-LINK : warning LNK4049: locally defined symbol "_fopen" imported
-_bsddb.pyd - 0 error(s), 4 warning(s)
+_bsddb.obj : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol _malloc imported in function __db_associateCallback
+_bsddb.obj : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol _free imported in function __DB_consume
+_bsddb.obj : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol _fclose imported in function _DB_verify
+_bsddb.obj : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol _fopen imported in function _DB_verify
+_bsddb.obj : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol _strncpy imported in function _init_pybsddb
+__bsddb - 0 error(s), 5 warning(s)
"""
XXX This isn't encouraging, but I don't know what to do about it.
@@ -238,9 +242,9 @@
http://www.openssl.org
You (probably) don't want the "engine" code. For example, get
- openssl-0.9.6g.tar.gz
+ openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz
not
- openssl-engine-0.9.6g.tar.gz
+ openssl-engine-0.9.7c.tar.gz
Unpack into the "dist" directory, retaining the folder name from
the archive - for example, the latest stable OpenSSL will install as
@@ -273,7 +277,7 @@
Win9x note: If, near the start of the build process, you see
something like
- C:\Code\openssl-0.9.6g>set OPTS=no-asm
+ C:\Code\openssl-0.9.7c>set OPTS=no-asm
Out of environment space
then you're in trouble, and will probably also see these errors near