Hello, Yesterday I tried building and testing Pygr-0.8.0.alpha2 under Windows XP x64 - and I'm happy to say it seems to work fine! The only problem I have encountered is that trying to build a MSI package (setup bdist_msi), which is the recommended format for distributing Win64 software, fails due to Python requiring the version number to strictly follow the x.y.z syntax, not allowing for the alpha postfix - that however is not a Pygr error. Note that I have only tried this with Python 2.6, as getting Visual C++ 2003 to build 64-bit targets is said to be a highly non-trivial task.
Two comments: - currently-available Express Editions of Visual C++ require downloading the standalone Windows SDK from Microsoft.com to be installed to enable support for 64-bit targets; I've added a few words on the subject to the "building and installing Pygr" Wiki page. On the other hand, it seems the compiler in question is 32-bit anyway so it should in principle be possible to build win-amd64 packages under 32-bit Windows; - Windows Server 2008 SDK, i.e. currently the most recent stable version of the Windows SDK, has got a bug in its vcvarsall.bat script (which is invoked by Python to locate the compiler) - while it does attempt to call the amd64-specific script, it looks for it in the wrong place (amd64\vcvars-amd64.bat instead of just vcvars64.bat, IIRC). This needs to be fixed by hand. Cheers, -- MS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
