Tweaked after following all these instructions.
Removed Win9x notes (since the .NET compiler requires Win2K or XP anyway).
diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index 02227a2..96374e4 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@
_tkinter
Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system. Requires building
- Tcl/Tk first. Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.4.3:
+ Tcl/Tk first. Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.4.5; these
+ should work for version 8.4.6 too, with suitable substitutions:
Get source
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@@ -77,19 +78,18 @@
dist\tk8.4.5\
respectively.
- Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 6 on Win98SE)
+ Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 7.1 on Windows XP)
---------------
+ Use "Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
+ -> Visual Studio .NET Tools -> Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt"
+ to get a shell window with the correct environment settings
cd dist\tcl8.4.5\win
- run vcvars32.bat [necessary even on Win2K]
nmake -f makefile.vc
nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcl84 install
XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?
- XXX Some tests failed in "nmake -f makefile.vc test".
- XXX all.tcl: Total 10480 Passed 9743 Skipped 719 Failed 18
- XXX
- XXX That was on Win98SE. On Win2K:
+ XXX Some tests failed in "nmake -f makefile.vc test". On Win2K:
XXX all.tcl Total 10480 Passed 9781 Skipped 698 Failed 1
Build Tk
@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@
and follow the "Windows->Building Berkeley DB with Visual C++ .NET"
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").
+ Build the "Release Static" version.
- XXX We're actually linking against Release_static\libdb42s.lib.
+ XXX We're linking against Release_static\libdb42s.lib.
XXX This yields the following warnings:
"""
Compiling...
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@
is then enabled. Running in verbose mode may be helpful.
XXX The test_bsddb3 tests don't always pass, on Windows (according to
- XXX me) or on Linux (according to Barry). I had much better luck
- XXX on Win2K than on Win98SE. The common failure mode across platforms
+ XXX me) or on Linux (according to Barry). (I had much better luck
+ XXX on Win2K than on Win98SE.) The common failure mode across platforms
XXX is
XXX DBAgainError: (11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable -- unable
XXX to join the environment')
@@ -254,8 +254,6 @@
the build. This Python script locates and builds your OpenSSL
installation, then invokes a simple makefile to build the final .pyd.
- Win9x users: see "Win9x note" below.
-
build_ssl.py attempts to catch the most common errors (such as not
being able to find OpenSSL sources, or not being able to find a Perl
that works with OpenSSL) and give a reasonable error message.
@@ -267,30 +265,6 @@
build_ssl.py/MSVC isn't clever enough to clean OpenSSL - you must do
this by hand.
- Win9x note: If, near the start of the build process, you see
- something like
-
- 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
- the end of the process:
-
- NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make
- 'crypto\md5\asm\m5_win32.asm'
- Stop.
- NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make
- 'C:\Code\openssl-0.9.6g/out32/libeay32.lib'
- Stop.
-
- You need more environment space. Win9x only has room for 256 bytes
- by default, and especially after installing ActivePerl (which fiddles
- the PATH envar), you're likely to run out. KB Q230205
-
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q230205
-
- explains how to edit CONFIG.SYS to cure this.
-
YOUR OWN EXTENSION DLLs
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