On ven, 2010-08-27 at 21:41 +0200, Martin Zibricky wrote:
> Giovanni Bajo píše v Pá 27. 08. 2010 v 20:55 +0200:
> 
> > 3) On Windows, will it work for people that have Visual Studio? Or does
> > it force people to install mingw?
> 
> On windows it should now use only mingw. I don't have visual studio
> installed so I could not test it. It should not be hard to support
> visual studio.

Doesn't waf automatically work with multiple compilers including Visual
Studio?

> What should be the policy about choosing compiler on windows? Firstly
> try mingw and then visual studio?
> I could try install visual studio. Which version should I test? I have
> access to VS 2005/2008/2010.

Theoretically, we should support all compilers that are able to produce
a working bootloader. I thought waf already did it automatically, this
is why I was asking.

I was eager to get mingw working because that is a FLOSS solution
available to everyone, but on the other hand many Python developers
might have Visual Studio around (since it's basically required to
compile Python extensions nowadays).


> > 5) Can you please prepare a patch for the documentation as well
> > (doc/source/Manual.rst)? You only need to update a few sections to give
> > the new instructions.
> 
> Sure, I can. Could you please point me to sections which should be
> updated. And I think that my updates will require some language
> corrections ;)

Basically, it should be sufficient to update the section called
"Building the bootloaders". Eventually, I would like to ship PyInstaller
with binary bootloaders for all operating system, at which point
building the bootloader would be a task for developers only and thus the
section will be moved out of "Getting Started".

> Could you please also take care of the code where pyinstaller will
> decide whether to bundle app with custom loader or with the loader
> distributed with pyinstaller for a particular platform?

There is no such logic in Build.py: what it does is simply using the
bootloaders in support/.
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