On Feb 2, 2008 7:34 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: > > Anyway, to make the tutorial as useful as possible I need to worry > > about Windows users. But being an OS X/UNIX user, I don't know how to > > help these people. =) As or right now I am going to point them to the > > readme.txt file in PCbuild for build instructions. But I don't know if > > there is any tips or tricks I should be pointing out to them in terms > > of developing on Python. I mean I assume they can use the build > > executable from their svn checkout and have it pick up changes they > > make to code in the checkout, right? I honestly don't know how > > different it is to develop on Windows than on UNIX. > > > > So any info that people can give me to cover would be helpful. > > I can provide some guidance for the poor Windows souls. :] The VS 2008 > Express Edition makes it easy to compile Python on Windows. There is no > need to install any extra SDK packages, additional compilers or whatsoever. > > Windows users need: > > Visual Studio Express Edition (VS C++ 2008) > http://www.microsoft.com/express/ > > Tortoise SVN (integrates into the explorer) > http://tortoisesvn.net/ > > Putty for writable checkouts (I highly recommend to use the agent) > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ > > Not required but very useful > ---------------------------- > > Notepad++ to edit Python files > http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ > > Total Commander (best Norton Commander clone for Windows) > http://ghisler.com/ > > SVN command line program > http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html > > Unix for Windows > http://cygwin.com/ > > > The PCbuild directory contains several helper bat files. The most > important files are build_env.bat and rt.bat. Build_env.bat opens a > command prompt and sets several env vars. rt.bat is a wrapper for the > unit test suite. I normally use "rt -q" or "rt -q -v test_egg > test_spam". build.bat must be run inside build_env command prompt. > build_pgo won't work with the express edition. >
PCbuild/readme.txt says that pressing F6 will also build everything fine. Is that true as well? And what is the best way to just launch an interpreter? Just double-click the built executable? I assume sys.path will still be set up properly to use the checkout. > The Windows developers should checkout the sources in a directory > without non ASCII chars and without spaces. I'm using the directory > c:\dev\python\ as root for development on Windows. Checkout the trunk > and py3k in the directory as well as the external dependencies. You > don't need Perl for the ssl package but Express Edition users must > compile BSDDB manually for Win32 Release|db_static and Win32 > Debug|db_static. build_tkinter.py builds the Tkinter dependencies. > > I'm trying to hang out on IRC during PyCon so I might be able to assist > with Windows questions. > Great! I am going to expect people to already know how to use svn aand have a compiler set up, just not necessarily started a compile yet. So I suspect most issues will just be best practices stuff. > It would be really cool if you can recruit some experienced Windows > developers. :] That's the point in all of this. =) -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
