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Document Python build requirements (#108646) 

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
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Build Requirements
==================
Features required to build CPython:
Features and minimum versions required to build CPython:
* A `C11 <https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/11>`_ compiler. `Optional C11
features
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)#Optional_features>`_
are not required.
* On Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later is required.
* Support for `IEEE 754 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754>`_ floating
point numbers and `floating point Not-a-Number (NaN)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN#Floating_point>`_.
* Support for threads.
* OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer for the :mod:`ssl` and :mod:`hashlib` modules.
* OpenSSL 1.1.1 is the minimum version and OpenSSL 3.0.9 is the recommended
minimum version for the :mod:`ssl` and :mod:`hashlib` extension modules.
* On Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later is required.
* SQLite 3.15.2 for the :mod:`sqlite3` extension module.
* Tcl/Tk 8.5.12 for the :mod:`tkinter` module.
* Autoconf 2.71 and aclocal 1.16.4 are required to regenerate the
:file:`configure` script.
.. versionchanged:: 3.13:
Autoconf 2.71, aclocal 1.16.4 and SQLite 3.15.2 are now required.
.. versionchanged:: 3.11
C11 compiler, IEEE 754 and NaN support are now required.
On Windows, Visual Studio 2017 or later is required.
Tcl/Tk version 8.5.12 is now required for the :mod:`tkinter` module.
.. versionchanged:: 3.10
OpenSSL 1.1.1 is now required.
Require SQLite 3.7.15.
.. versionchanged:: 3.7
Thread support and OpenSSL 1.0.2 are now required.
@ -37,7 +50,11 @@ Features required to build CPython:
inline`` functions.
.. versionchanged:: 3.5
On Windows, Visual Studio 2015 or later is required.
On Windows, Visual Studio 2015 or later is now required.
Tcl/Tk version 8.4 is now required.
.. versionchanged:: 3.1
Tcl/Tk version 8.3.1 is now required.
See also :pep:`7` "Style Guide for C Code" and :pep:`11` "CPython platform
support".
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Configure Options
=================
List all ``./configure`` script options using::
List all :file:`configure` script options using::
./configure --help

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=============
* Autoconf 2.71 and aclocal 1.16.4 is now required to regenerate
:file:`!configure`.
the :file:`configure` script.
(Contributed by Christian Heimes in :gh:`89886`.)
* SQLite 3.15.2 or newer is required to build the :mod:`sqlite3` extension module.