On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 6:24 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > Note: it can be made even less compelling by making it a lot easier to > build CPython on Windows without having an MSVC license (which I think > means not using the GUI, for which I say *yay* :). I think Zach Ware > has been working on improving the Windows build process, and I keep > meaning to give it a try...
So far my improvements have been limited to what it takes to build after installing prerequisites (and documenting what exactly those prerequisites are), but on that front things are significantly better in 3.5, I think. I will note that it's been possible to build Python entirely without using the VS GUI (though it still has to be installed, I think) for quite some time, but hasn't been especially easy to remember the incantations to do so. 3.5 now has a fairly nice set of batch scripts (I think; but I (re)wrote them :) that work well together and are even documented in the PCbuild readme. I've had dreams of a set of configure.bat/make.bat scripts (issue16895) to make things even simpler, but I've put that on hold until after Steve Dower's major overhaul for VC14 has happened. One thing I'd like to look into more eventually is seeing what it would take to build with only the Windows SDK installed (which is free and has no GUI at all), but I think Steve has mentioned something about that in connection with the work he's doing -- either way, things will be different when we switch to VC14 so I'm also putting that off. -- Zach _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
