Thanks, that got me a bit further. Now I'm wondering how I figure out which version of tcl,tk and Tix actually got built with the 2.7.10 installer. Tools\buildbot\external.bat conflicts with the versions found in PC\build_tkinter.py, and the version in PC\VS8.0\build_tkinter.py.
I am assuming the buildbot script is the one that's actually, used? I would submit a patch to clean some of this up, but sounds as though it's in the pipeline. On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) _______________________________________________ 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
