Hi, I'm trying to build Python on Windows using Visual Studio 2005. I have no trouble compiling tcl/tk 8.5, but when I subsequently build Python it doesn't find tcl/tk (I get a message about being unable to find tcl.h).
I'm using the source distribution of Python 2.5.2, not the svn version. I'm trying to follow the instructions in PCbuild8/readme.txt, but I'm not sure I understand them correctly. Here is the part of the text that I think I might have misunderstood: """ The following subprojects [including Tkinter] will generally NOT build out of the box. They wrap code Python doesn't control, and you'll need to download the base packages first and unpack them into siblings of PCbuilds's parent directory; for example, if your PCbuild is .......\dist\src\PCbuild\, unpack into new subdirectories of dist\. """ If I have extracted the Python source archive to c:\Python-2.5.2\, then my understanding is that I should extract the tcl and tk source archives to c:\tcl-8.5.4\ and c:\tk-8.5.4\, respectively. Then, when I build and install tcl and tk, their output is c:\tcltk\ (because the instructions say to pass "INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk" when building). This is then supposed to be found when I build Python. But tcl/tk isn't found, so I assume I didn't do the right thing here. I feel a bit stupid! I also can't find any explicit instructions for building Python with tcl/tk support using Visual Studio by searching the web. Thanks for any help, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
