Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Building Python using VC++ 9.0 |
| 2 | ------------------------------ |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 4 | 2000, XP and Vista. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| 5 | (a.k.a. Visual Studio .NET 2008). |
Guido van Rossum | 15b239f | 1998-05-26 14:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | (For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.) |
| 7 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 8 | All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.sln" in Visual Studio, |
| 9 | select the desired combination of configuration and platform and eventually |
| 10 | build the solution. Unless you are going to debug a problem in the core or |
| 11 | you are going to create an optimized build you want to select "Release" as |
| 12 | configuration. |
Guido van Rossum | 15b239f | 1998-05-26 14:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 14 | The PCbuild directory is compatible with all versions of Visual Studio from |
| 15 | VS C++ Express Edition over the standard edition up to the professional |
| 16 | edition. However the express edition does support features like solution |
| 17 | folders or profile guided optimization (PGO). The missing bits and pieces |
| 18 | won't stop you from building Python. |
Guido van Rossum | 15b239f | 1998-05-26 14:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 20 | The solution is configured to build the projects in the correct order. "Build |
| 21 | Solution" or F6 takes care of dependencies except for x64 builds. To make |
| 22 | cross compiling x64 builds on a 32bit OS possible the x64 builds require a |
| 23 | 32bit version of Python. |
Guido van Rossum | 15b239f | 1998-05-26 14:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 26 | NOTE: |
| 27 | You probably don't want to build most of the other subprojects, unless |
| 28 | you're building an entire Python distribution from scratch, or |
| 29 | specifically making changes to the subsystems they implement, or are |
| 30 | running a Python core buildbot test slave; see SUBPROJECTS below) |
Guido van Rossum | 15b239f | 1998-05-26 14:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | |
| 32 | When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to |
Martin v. Löwis | ff0940f | 2007-08-30 05:40:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | their name: python30_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on. |
Guido van Rossum | e79cf32 | 1998-07-07 22:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 35 | The 32bit builds end up in the solution folder PCbuild while the x64 builds |
| 36 | land in the amd64 subfolder. The PGI and PGO builds for profile guided |
| 37 | optimization end up in their own folders, too. |
| 38 | |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | SUBPROJECTS |
| 40 | ----------- |
Tim Peters | 610a827 | 2000-07-01 02:51:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | These subprojects should build out of the box. Subprojects other than the |
Tim Peters | befc97c | 2001-01-18 19:01:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | main ones (pythoncore, python, pythonw) generally build a DLL (renamed to |
Tim Peters | 610a827 | 2000-07-01 02:51:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | .pyd) from a specific module so that users don't have to load the code |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | supporting that module unless they import the module. |
Guido van Rossum | e79cf32 | 1998-07-07 22:35:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | |
Tim Peters | 97c9640 | 2001-01-17 23:23:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | pythoncore |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | .dll and .lib |
| 48 | python |
| 49 | .exe |
| 50 | pythonw |
| 51 | pythonw.exe, a variant of python.exe that doesn't pop up a DOS box |
| 52 | _socket |
| 53 | socketmodule.c |
Tim Peters | d66595f | 2001-02-04 03:09:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | _testcapi |
Tim Peters | b16c56f | 2001-02-02 21:24:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | tests of the Python C API, run via Lib/test/test_capi.py, and |
Tim Peters | d66595f | 2001-02-04 03:09:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | implemented by module Modules/_testcapimodule.c |
Tim Peters | b012a15 | 2002-02-13 23:56:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | pyexpat |
| 58 | Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing, which incorporates stable |
| 59 | code from the Expat project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | select |
| 61 | selectmodule.c |
Tim Peters | 19f52c2 | 2001-01-24 10:07:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | unicodedata |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | large tables of Unicode data |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | winsound |
| 65 | play sounds (typically .wav files) under Windows |
| 66 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 67 | The following subprojects will generally NOT build out of the box. They |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | wrap code Python doesn't control, and you'll need to download the base |
Tim Peters | aff1284 | 2000-08-25 06:52:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | packages first and unpack them into siblings of PCbuilds's parent |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 70 | directory; for example, if your PCbuild is ..\dist\py3k\PCbuild\, |
| 71 | unpack into new subdirectories of ..\dist\. |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | |
| 73 | _tkinter |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system. Requires building |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 75 | Tcl/Tk first. Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.4.16. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | NOTE: The 64 build builds must land in tcltk64 instead of tcltk. |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | |
| 79 | Get source |
| 80 | ---------- |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | In the dist directory, run |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 82 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.16 |
| 83 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.16 |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.0 |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 86 | Build with build_tkinter.py |
| 87 | --------------------------- |
| 88 | The PCbuild directory contains a Python script which automates all |
| 89 | steps. Run the script in a Visual Studio 2009 command prompt with |
| 90 | |
| 91 | python build_tkinter.py Win32 |
| 92 | |
| 93 | Use x64 instead of Win32 for the x64 platform. |
| 94 | |
| 95 | Build Tcl first |
Tim Peters | 6c62995 | 2002-11-15 18:36:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | --------------- |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 97 | Use "Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 |
| 98 | -> Visual Studio Tools -> Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt" |
Guido van Rossum | d54357d | 2004-03-20 21:00:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | to get a shell window with the correct environment settings |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 100 | cd dist\tcl8.4.16\win |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 101 | nmake -f makefile.vc |
Martin v. Löwis | 6de2d4d | 2004-08-30 09:22:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | |
| 104 | XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads? |
| 105 | |
Tim Peters | 011de6cc | 2004-04-11 17:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | Optional: run tests, via |
| 107 | nmake -f makefile.vc test |
| 108 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 6de2d4d | 2004-08-30 09:22:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | On WinXP Pro, wholly up to date as of 30-Aug-2004: |
Tim Peters | e82b00f | 2004-08-30 21:14:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | all.tcl: Total 10678 Passed 9969 Skipped 709 Failed 0 |
Tim Peters | 011de6cc | 2004-04-11 17:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 111 | Sourced 129 Test Files. |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 112 | |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | Build Tk |
Tim Peters | 6c62995 | 2002-11-15 18:36:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | -------- |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 115 | cd dist\tk8.4.16\win |
| 116 | nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.16 |
| 117 | nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.16 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | |
| 119 | XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads? |
| 120 | |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 121 | XXX Our installer copies a lot of stuff out of the Tcl/Tk install |
| 122 | XXX directory. Is all of that really needed for Python use of Tcl/Tk? |
| 123 | |
Tim Peters | 011de6cc | 2004-04-11 17:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | Optional: run tests, via |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 125 | nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.16 test |
Tim Peters | 011de6cc | 2004-04-11 17:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 6de2d4d | 2004-08-30 09:22:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 127 | On WinXP Pro, wholly up to date as of 30-Aug-2004: |
Tim Peters | e82b00f | 2004-08-30 21:14:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 128 | all.tcl: Total 8420 Passed 6826 Skipped 1581 Failed 13 |
Martin v. Löwis | 6de2d4d | 2004-08-30 09:22:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 129 | Sourced 91 Test Files. |
Tim Peters | e82b00f | 2004-08-30 21:14:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | Files with failing tests: canvImg.test scrollbar.test textWind.test winWm.test |
Tim Peters | 63db628 | 2005-08-07 02:47:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 3cf2163 | 2004-08-31 16:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | Built Tix |
| 133 | --------- |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 134 | cd dist\tix-8.4.0\win |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 135 | nmake -f python9.mak |
| 136 | nmake -f python9.mak install |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | |
Tim Peters | b0ead4e | 2002-11-09 04:48:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | bz2 |
| 139 | Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library. Homepage |
| 140 | http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | Download the source from the python.org copy into the dist |
| 142 | directory: |
| 143 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 14c1cf8 | 2006-03-13 10:52:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.3 |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | |
Thomas Heller | 46a007e | 2003-08-20 18:27:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | A custom pre-link step in the bz2 project settings should manage to |
Tim Peters | 7ccbb07 | 2006-03-13 19:43:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | build bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib by magic before bz2.pyd (or bz2_d.pyd) is |
Thomas Heller | 46a007e | 2003-08-20 18:27:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | linked in PCbuild\. |
| 149 | However, the bz2 project is not smart enough to remove anything under |
Martin v. Löwis | 14c1cf8 | 2006-03-13 10:52:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | bzip2-1.0.3\ when you do a clean, so if you want to rebuild bzip2.lib |
| 151 | you need to clean up bzip2-1.0.3\ by hand. |
Tim Peters | 077736b | 2002-11-14 23:24:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 153 | All of this managed to build libbz2.lib in |
| 154 | bzip2-1.0.3\$platform-$configuration\, which the Python project links in. |
Tim Peters | b0ead4e | 2002-11-09 04:48:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 155 | |
| 156 | |
Tim Peters | 78e35f9 | 2002-11-22 20:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | _bsddb |
Tim Peters | 7ccbb07 | 2006-03-13 19:43:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | To use the version of bsddb that Python is built with by default, invoke |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | (in the dist directory) |
Tim Peters | b0ead4e | 2002-11-09 04:48:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 161 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/db-4.4.20 |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 162 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 163 | Next open the solution file db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln with |
| 164 | Visual Studio and convert the projects to the new format. The standard |
| 165 | and professional version of VS 2008 builds the necessary libraries |
| 166 | in a pre-link step of _bsddb. However the express edition is missing |
| 167 | some pieces and you have to build the libs yourself. |
| 168 | |
| 169 | The _bsddb subprojects depends only on the db_static project of |
| 170 | Berkeley DB. You have to choose either "Release", "Release AMD64", "Debug" |
| 171 | or "Debug AMD64" as configuration. |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | |
Tim Peters | 32d996f | 2006-03-13 19:35:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | Alternatively, if you want to start with the original sources, |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | go to Sleepycat's download page: |
| 175 | http://www.sleepycat.com/downloads/releasehistorybdb.html |
| 176 | |
| 177 | and download version 4.4.20. |
Tim Peters | 011de6cc | 2004-04-11 17:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | |
| 179 | With or without strong cryptography? You can choose either with or |
| 180 | without strong cryptography, as per the instructions below. By |
Thomas Heller | 8139140 | 2004-07-02 08:58:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | default, Python is built and distributed WITHOUT strong crypto. |
Tim Peters | 011de6cc | 2004-04-11 17:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | Unpack the sources; if you downloaded the non-crypto version, rename |
| 184 | the directory from db-4.4.20.NC to db-4.4.20. |
Tim Peters | 011de6cc | 2004-04-11 17:29:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | Now apply any patches that apply to your version. |
Tim Peters | a0d781a | 2004-04-11 18:23:06 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | |
Tim Peters | 0064026 | 2003-01-24 15:31:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 188 | Open |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 189 | db-4.4.20\docs\ref\build_win\intro.html |
Tim Peters | 0064026 | 2003-01-24 15:31:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | |
Mark Hammond | 2362da8 | 2004-01-06 04:04:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | and follow the "Windows->Building Berkeley DB with Visual C++ .NET" |
| 192 | instructions for building the Sleepycat |
Tim Peters | 0064026 | 2003-01-24 15:31:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | software. Note that Berkeley_DB.dsw is in the build_win32 subdirectory. |
Martin v. Löwis | f6f7925 | 2006-03-13 13:48:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | Build the "db_static" project, for "Release" mode. |
Tim Peters | 78e35f9 | 2002-11-22 20:00:34 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | |
Tim Peters | 0064026 | 2003-01-24 15:31:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | To run extensive tests, pass "-u bsddb" to regrtest.py. test_bsddb3.py |
| 197 | is then enabled. Running in verbose mode may be helpful. |
| 198 | |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | _sqlite3 |
| 200 | Python wrapper for SQLite library. |
| 201 | |
| 202 | Get the source code through |
| 203 | |
| 204 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/sqlite-source-3.3.4 |
| 205 | |
| 206 | To use the extension module in a Python build tree, copy sqlite3.dll into |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 207 | the PCbuild folder. The source directory in svn also contains a .def file |
| 208 | from the binary release of sqlite3. |
Martin v. Löwis | b091241 | 2006-03-13 15:37:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | |
Mark Hammond | f229f9f | 2002-12-03 05:47:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | _ssl |
Tim Peters | e8bcb25 | 2002-12-04 02:39:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 211 | Python wrapper for the secure sockets library. |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | Get the source code through |
Mark Hammond | f229f9f | 2002-12-03 05:47:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 215 | svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-0.9.8g |
Tim Peters | e8bcb25 | 2002-12-04 02:39:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 217 | Alternatively, get the latest version from http://www.openssl.org. |
Mark Hammond | f229f9f | 2002-12-03 05:47:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | You can (theoretically) use any version of OpenSSL you like - the |
| 219 | build process will automatically select the latest version. |
| 220 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 221 | You must install the NASM assembler from |
| 222 | http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/nasm/binaries/win32/ |
| 223 | for x86 builds. Put nasmw.exe anywhere in your PATH. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | You can also install ActivePerl from |
Mark Hammond | f229f9f | 2002-12-03 05:47:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 227 | if you like to use the official sources instead of the files from |
| 228 | python's subversion repository. The svn version contains pre-build |
| 229 | makefiles and assembly files. |
| 230 | |
| 231 | The build process makes sure that no patented algorithms are included. |
| 232 | For now RC5, MDC2 and IDEA are excluded from the build. You may have |
| 233 | to manually remove $(OBJ_D)\i_*.obj from ms\nt.mak if the build process |
| 234 | complains about missing files or forbidden IDEA. Again the files provided |
| 235 | in the subversion repository are already fixed. |
Mark Hammond | f229f9f | 2002-12-03 05:47:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | |
| 237 | The MSVC project simply invokes PCBuild/build_ssl.py to perform |
Tim Peters | e8bcb25 | 2002-12-04 02:39:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 238 | the build. This Python script locates and builds your OpenSSL |
Mark Hammond | f229f9f | 2002-12-03 05:47:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | installation, then invokes a simple makefile to build the final .pyd. |
| 240 | |
| 241 | build_ssl.py attempts to catch the most common errors (such as not |
| 242 | being able to find OpenSSL sources, or not being able to find a Perl |
| 243 | that works with OpenSSL) and give a reasonable error message. |
| 244 | If you have a problem that doesn't seem to be handled correctly |
| 245 | (eg, you know you have ActivePerl but we can't find it), please take |
| 246 | a peek at build_ssl.py and suggest patches. Note that build_ssl.py |
| 247 | should be able to be run directly from the command-line. |
| 248 | |
Tim Peters | e8bcb25 | 2002-12-04 02:39:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | build_ssl.py/MSVC isn't clever enough to clean OpenSSL - you must do |
| 250 | this by hand. |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 13e50fe | 2004-07-20 14:37:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | Building for Itanium |
| 253 | -------------------- |
| 254 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 255 | NOTE: |
| 256 | Official support for Itanium builds have been dropped from the build. Please |
| 257 | contact as and provide patches if you are interested in Itanium builds. |
| 258 | |
Tim Peters | e82b00f | 2004-08-30 21:14:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 259 | The project files support a ReleaseItanium configuration which creates |
Martin v. Löwis | 13e50fe | 2004-07-20 14:37:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | Win64/Itanium binaries. For this to work, you need to install the Platform |
| 261 | SDK, in particular the 64-bit support. This includes an Itanium compiler |
| 262 | (future releases of the SDK likely include an AMD64 compiler as well). |
| 263 | In addition, you need the Visual Studio plugin for external C compilers, |
| 264 | from http://sf.net/projects/vsextcomp. The plugin will wrap cl.exe, to |
Tim Peters | e82b00f | 2004-08-30 21:14:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | locate the proper target compiler, and convert compiler options |
Thomas Wouters | 0e3f591 | 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 266 | accordingly. The project files require atleast version 0.9. |
Martin v. Löwis | 13e50fe | 2004-07-20 14:37:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | |
Martin v. Löwis | 856bf9a | 2006-02-14 20:42:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | Building for AMD64 |
| 269 | ------------------ |
| 270 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 271 | The build process for AMD64 / x64 is very similar to standard builds. You just |
| 272 | have to set x64 as platform. |
Martin v. Löwis | 856bf9a | 2006-02-14 20:42:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | Building Python Using the free MS Toolkit Compiler |
| 275 | -------------------------------------------------- |
| 276 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 277 | Microsoft has withdrawn the free MS Toolkit Compiler, so this can no longer |
| 278 | be considered a supported option. Instead you can use the free VS C++ Express |
| 279 | Edition. |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 280 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 281 | Profile Guided Optimization |
| 282 | --------------------------- |
Thomas Wouters | 0e3f591 | 2006-08-11 14:57:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 284 | The solution has two configurations for PGO. The PGInstrument configuration |
| 285 | must be build first. The PGInstrument binaries are lniked against a profiling |
| 286 | library and contain extra debug information. The PGUpdate configuration takes the profiling data and generates optimized binaries. |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 288 | The build_pgo.bat script automates the creation of optimized binaries. It |
| 289 | creates the PGI files, runs the unit test suite or PyBench with the PGI |
| 290 | python and finally creates the optimized files. |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 291 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 292 | http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e7k32f4k(VS.90).aspx |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 294 | Static library |
| 295 | -------------- |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 297 | The solution has no configuration for static libraries. However it is easy |
| 298 | it build a static library instead of a DLL. You simply have to set the |
| 299 | "Configuration Type" to "Static Library (.lib)" and alter the preprocessor |
| 300 | macro "Py_ENABLE_SHARED" to "Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED". You may also have to |
| 301 | change the "Runtime Library" from "Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)" to |
| 302 | "Multi-threaded (/MT)". |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 303 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 304 | Visual Studio properties |
| 305 | ------------------------ |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 306 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 307 | The PCbuild solution makes heavy use of Visual Studio property files |
| 308 | (*.vsprops). The properties can be viewed and altered in the Property |
| 309 | Manager (View -> Other Windows -> Property Manager). |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 311 | * debug (debug macro: _DEBUG) |
| 312 | * pginstrument (PGO) |
| 313 | * pgupdate (PGO) |
| 314 | +-- pginstrument |
| 315 | * pyd (python extension, release build) |
| 316 | +-- release |
| 317 | +-- pyproject |
| 318 | * pyd_d (python extension, debug build) |
| 319 | +-- debug |
| 320 | +-- pyproject |
| 321 | * pyproject (base settings for all projects, user macros like PyDllName) |
| 322 | * release (release macro: NDEBUG) |
| 323 | * x64 (AMD64 / x64 platform specific settings) |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 325 | The pyproject propertyfile defines _WIN32 and x64 defines _WIN64 and _M_X64 |
| 326 | although the macros are set by the compiler, too. The GUI doesn't always know |
| 327 | about the macros and confuse the user with false information. |
Thomas Wouters | 49fd7fa | 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | |
Tim Peters | f9a4a6e | 2000-07-01 20:38:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | YOUR OWN EXTENSION DLLs |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 330 | ----------------------- |
Christian Heimes | 5b5e81c | 2007-12-31 16:14:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 331 | |
Tim Peters | 4b5fb07 | 2000-07-01 00:03:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | If you want to create your own extension module DLL, there's an example |
| 333 | with easy-to-follow instructions in ../PC/example/; read the file |
| 334 | readme.txt there first. |