So, as an exercise, I started a naked WinXP VM and proceeded to hack on making a build environment.
The wiki page is a little out of date ; there are newer versions of some things, it doesn't mention Python 2.6, etc. My first session on this ends at the point where TBZR is demanding VS 2008 to build the shell extension. The questions that occur are * Could it be done with MinGW at all? * Failing that, can it be done with the VS2008 Express distribution? Tired now. Brain needs rest. Ug. Below are my rather scrabbly notes ========== Install all three python flavours Make batch files in system32 with content (where NN is python version) c:\PythonNN\python.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 python24.bat python25.bat python26.bat mingw (the unsupported gcc 4 version linked on wiki page) Elect to bind distutils to mingw for all Python versions gnu make put both bin folders on PATH along with Python25 install MS Visual C++ 2008 runtime redist (the mscvrt library, not the compiler) from MS downloads recreate importable libraries for mingw see : http://gamera.sourceforge.net/doc/html/install.html Find msvcr90.dll in the windows folder using explorer search and copy to pexports bin folder .\pexports.exe msvcr90.dll | out-file -enc ascii msvcr90.def dlltool --input-def msvcr90.def --dllname msvcr90.dll --output-lib libmsvcr90.a -k Place output in c:\mingw\lib Pyrex 0.9.8.5 (from tarball) * make * NB - echo wraps the version string in quotes on Win32, so you'll have to hand-edit Pyrex/Compiler/Version.py * Only required for the "master" python you are running the build process from * use setup.py zlib Follow instructions for using zlib with mingw in zlib123-dll.zip (copy files to folders in your mingw environment) docutils * setup.py make python-installer Success! == EXE type installer == Py2exe Pywin32 == TortoiseBzr == PyQt4 * minimal is sufficient Set up overlays TBZR must be built.. .. refuses without VS2008 compiler _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~bzr-windows Post to : bzr-windows@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~bzr-windows More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
