Compiling Python using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Colin J. Williams
1.I have both 2.5 and 2.6 but both appear, under Recent Projects, as pcbuild. It would be helpful if the Python Version could be indicated. 2.With 2.6, Python compiles and executes OK but various packages are not compiled, eg sqlite3. 3.Pythonw compiles OK but not sqlite3. 4.Mike Fletcher

Re: Compiling Python using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
1.I have both 2.5 and 2.6 but both appear, under Recent Projects, as pcbuild. It would be helpful if the Python Version could be indicated. Hover over the link, and it will display the full path, which you can then infer to reason about the specific copy of Python you are using. In any case,

Re: Compiling Python using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Colin J. Williams
Martin v. Löwis wrote: 1.I have both 2.5 and 2.6 but both appear, under Recent Projects, as pcbuild. It would be helpful if the Python Version could be indicated. Hover over the link, and it will display the full path, which you can then infer to reason about the specific copy of Python you

Re: Compiling Python using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Christian Heimes
Colin J. Williams schrieb: See PCbuild/readme.txt. I presume that this is PCbuild8.txt No, it's PCbuild/readme.txt in Python 2.6 and 3.0 By the way you can call Tools\buildbot\external.bat from the root directory of the 2.6 and 3.0. It checks out and build the dependencies. The script

Re: Compiling Python using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

2008-05-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
See PCbuild/readme.txt. I presume that this is PCbuild8.txt As Christian says: PCbuild/readme.txt are the correct instructions (and had been since Python 2.0 or so). Now, I would like to remove Python 2.5 from VS 2008 but see no obvious way of getting rid of it. You might be able to clear