On Jul 24, 2015 8:30 AM, "Mark Kelley" <keee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been using Python for some time but it's been a decade since > I've tried to build it from source, back in the 2.4 days. Things seem > to have gotten a little more complicated now. > > I've read through the PCBuild/README file and got most stuff > compiling. I find it a little odd that there are special instructions > for the building the release version of tcl/tk. Is that what the > developers actually do when they cut a release, or is there some > other, top-level script that does this automatically? It just seems > odd.
That used to be standard procedure, yes. However, I just recently backported the project files from 3.5, which include project files for building Tcl/Tk and Tix, in both Debug and Release configurations, so I may have missed some stuff that could be removed from PCbuild/readme.txt. You do need some extra stuff to build 2.7 with its new project files, though (which i know is now covered in readme.txt). There hasn't been a release with those project files yet though, they're just in the hg repo. > Anyhow, my specific question is around the distutils wininst stubs, > provided as binaries in the release tarball. Where can I find the > source files that those binaries are built from? I believe the source for those is in PC/bdist_wininst/, or some very similar path. Hope this helps, -- Zach (On a phone)
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