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The main io module now uses the C implementation. The Python one still exists in Lib/_pyio.py for ease of testing new features and usefulness to other implementers. The rewrite was done by Antoine Pitrou and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. I was slightly helpful at the end. :) Following are the log messages from the io-c branch: Merged revisions 68683-68685,68687-68689,68693,68704,68741-68743,68745,68747,68752-68754,68756,68758,68812,68816-68817,68820-68822,68824-68825,68828,68876-68877,69037,69044,69104,69115,69194,69626-69629,69636,69638,69641-69642,69644-69654,69656-69661,69671,69677,69812-69815,69817,69827-69830,69839,69841-69845,69848,69850,69852,69854,69860,69865-69866,69868,69872-69873,69885,69888,69891-69893,69911,69913-69916,69963,70033,70035,70038,70041-70048,70067-70070,70075,70112,70133,70135,70140 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/io-c ........ r68683 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:13:48 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Merge in changes from the io-c sandbox. Tests will follow in separate commits. ........ r68684 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:17:26 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fixes and additions to test_io.py ........ r68685 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:22:04 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 1 line Fix test_fileio ........ r68687 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:35:11 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add dependency to _iomodule.h for the various C sources ........ r68688 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:38:18 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines These precautions are not needed anymore! ........ r68689 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:41:48 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix another test ........ r68693 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 17:49:58 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix test_uu (which was using private attributes of TextIOWrapper) ........ r68704 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-17 18:45:29 -0600 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Most io sources are Py_ssize_t-clean (I don't know about bytesio and stringio) ........ r68741 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:20:30 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Check return type in TextIOWrapper.__next__ ........ r68742 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:28:48 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 4 lines Make binary buffered readline and iteration much faster (8x as fast as the IOBase generic implementation) ........ r68743 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 15:47:47 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Reinsert test_io_after_close (was removed by mistake) ........ r68745 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 16:16:06 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add read, read1 and write methods to BufferedIOBase ........ r68747 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 16:35:58 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Kill test failure ........ r68752 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-18 17:05:43 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix a segfault when e.g a BufferedReader is created with a FileIO in read mode. ........ r68753 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 17:13:09 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add truncate() to text IO objects ........ r68754 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 17:51:08 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Remove IOBase.__del__ and replace it with custom code with tp_dealloc ........ r68756 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 18:10:16 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Remove irrelevant comment. ........ r68758 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-18 18:36:16 -0600 (Sun, 18 Jan 2009) | 3 lines in importlib:_fileio._FileIO -> _io.FileIO ........ r68812 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 14:15:51 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add garbage collection support to FileIO objects ........ r68816 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 14:56:28 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add GC support to Buffered and Text IO objects ........ r68817 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:19:45 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add some file headers ........ r68820 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:29:59 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add class TextIOBase ........ r68821 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:36:16 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Add properties to TextIOBase ........ r68822 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 15:41:19 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Disable the pure Python TextIOBase class, and inject C the implementation instead ........ r68824 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 16:36:28 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix two leaks ........ r68825 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 16:38:29 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines FileIO.name is just a plain attribute, we can set it directly ........ r68828 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-20 17:06:33 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Speed up closed checks on text IO objects. Good for a 25% speedup on small ops. ........ r68876 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-23 17:01:25 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Two typos ........ r68877 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-23 18:13:20 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Remove two unused functions ........ r69037 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-27 17:10:25 -0600 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) | 2 lines Update the win32 project files ........ r69044 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-27 18:51:07 -0600 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Improve heuristic in IncrementalNewlineDecoder + some micro-optimizations ........ r69104 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-29 15:23:42 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 3 lines Fix some crashers found by Victor ........ r69115 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-01-29 20:36:28 -0600 (Thu, 29 Jan 2009) | 1 line Updated VC6 project file. ........ r69194 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-01 16:57:18 -0600 (Sun, 01 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix downcasting warnings in 32-bit mode with 64-bit offsets (Windows) ........ r69626 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 17:33:34 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line only catch AttributeError and UnsupportedOperation ........ r69627 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 21:35:28 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line give the IO module its own state and store the os and locale modules in it ........ r69628 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 22:08:32 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line put interned strings in the module state structure ........ r69629 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 22:15:29 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line put UnsupportedOperation in the module state ........ r69636 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 08:31:42 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line dealloc unsupported_operation ........ r69638 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 09:24:45 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line actually test the C implementation ........ r69641 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 10:12:37 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 5 lines make interned strings globals again ;( putting them in the module state was asking for trouble when the module was dealloced before the classes in it were ........ r69642 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 10:19:45 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line actually test the python implementations ........ r69644 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 11:59:30 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix memory leak in destructor when a Python class inherits from IOBase (or an IOBase-derived type) ........ r69645 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 12:23:26 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a warning about the embarassing state of IOBase finalization ........ r69646 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:14:42 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix opening of 8-bit filenames with FileIO ........ r69647 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:20:22 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix leak in FileIO constructor ........ r69648 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 13:58:16 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix some refleaks ........ r69649 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:05:13 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix a leak in IOBase.writelines ........ r69650 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:11:56 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix memory leak in BufferedWriter.truncate ........ r69651 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:25:34 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix a leak in TextIOWrapper.seek ........ r69652 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 14:26:28 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Unify implementations of truncate for buffered objects ........ r69653 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 15:15:15 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Fix more leaks in TextIOWrapper ........ r69654 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 15:21:57 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Smaller chunk size for a faster test ........ r69656 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 17:29:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line braces make this much clearer ........ r69657 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 17:46:07 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line use the correct macro ........ r69658 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-15 19:38:59 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 5 lines Fix crash in test_urllib2_localnet in debug mode. It was due to an HTTPResponse object being revived when calling its close() method in IOBase's tp_dealloc. _PyIOBase_finalize() starts looking scary... ........ r69659 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 20:55:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix segfault on initialization failing ........ r69660 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 21:09:31 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line apparently locale.getprefferedencoding() can raise a ImportError, too ........ r69661 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-15 21:54:15 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line it's amazing this worked at all; I was using the wrong structs! ........ r69671 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 08:38:27 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line add garbage collection support to bytesio ........ r69677 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 10:31:03 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 5 lines reduce ImportError catching code duplication I'm not sure this makes the code clearer with its new gotos, but at least I added a big fat comment ........ r69812 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 13:50:16 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines _StringIO now belongs to the _io modules, rather to its own _stringio module ........ r69813 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 13:58:22 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a test for StringIO properties ........ r69814 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:06:03 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Reimplement a few trivial StringIO functions and properties in C ........ r69815 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:13:11 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add the line_buffering property to TextIOWrapper, and test for it ........ r69817 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 14:45:50 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Allow IncrementalNewlineDecoder to take unicode objects as decoding input if the decoder parameter is None This will help rewriting StringIO to C ........ r69827 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 19:00:30 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Rewrite most of StringIO in C. Some almost empty stubs remain to be converted. ........ r69828 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-20 19:09:25 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Plug a leak, and remove an unused string ........ r69829 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-20 20:02:28 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line this assertions makes more sense here ........ r69830 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-20 20:03:04 -0600 (Fri, 20 Feb 2009) | 1 line PyModule_AddObject can fail; simplify this code with a macro ........ r69839 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-21 12:54:01 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 3 lines StringIO is now written entirely in C (and blazingly fast) ........ r69841 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:05:40 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line split the Python implementation of io into another module and rewrite the tests to test both implementations ........ r69842 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:10:00 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line closed is not a function ........ r69843 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:13:04 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix __all__ test ........ r69844 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:21:24 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix the rest of the Misc tests ........ r69845 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 14:26:59 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line RawIOBase is better for FileIO ........ r69848 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 15:33:53 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix some more tests broken by bag argument validation ........ r69850 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:16:42 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line make the python IncrementalNewineDecoder support a None decoder ........ r69852 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:36:09 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix a BlockingIOError.characters_written bug ........ r69854 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 16:49:02 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line check whence ........ r69860 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 17:42:50 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix some of these Misbehaving io tests ........ r69865 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 18:59:52 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line don't use super here() ........ r69866 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 19:05:28 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line use implementation specific classes ........ r69868 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-21 22:12:05 -0600 (Sat, 21 Feb 2009) | 1 line use a more DRY friendly approach to injecting module contents into test classes ........ r69872 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 13:39:45 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Sanitize destructor behaviour of IOBase. Now Python-defined attributes can be accessed from close(). ........ r69873 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 13:50:14 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Only set the internal fd after it has been checked to be valid (otherwise, the destructor will attempt to close it) ........ r69885 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 15:30:14 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line convert some other tests to use both io implementations ........ r69888 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-22 17:03:16 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Silence all exceptions when finalizing ........ r69891 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:27:24 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line convert another test to test both io implementations ........ r69892 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:32:15 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line help poor people like me to find their io tests (did I miss any?) ........ r69893 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-22 17:37:56 -0600 (Sun, 22 Feb 2009) | 1 line put a big note in the test telling people to write tests for both implementations now ........ r69911 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 13:57:18 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines expose DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE again (fixes a bunch of test failures) ........ r69913 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:10:30 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Do the cyclic garbage collection tests only on the C version. The Python version is helpless as it uses __del__. ........ r69914 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:21:41 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Adapt test_largefile to test both implementations ........ r69915 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:25:14 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines One small failure ........ r69916 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-23 14:28:33 -0600 (Mon, 23 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a comment, at BP's request ........ r69963 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-25 09:42:59 -0600 (Wed, 25 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Add a test of ABC inheritance ........ r70033 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 15:49:50 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines The base classes now are ABCs. ........ r70035 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 15:57:41 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line good house keeping ........ r70038 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 17:05:23 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 4 lines Make the buffer allocation overflow tests specific to the C implementation, since the Python implementation resizes its buffers when needed rather than allocating them up front. ........ r70041 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 18:26:12 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line kill java naming for sanity ........ r70042 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 18:28:53 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 2 lines timingTest is superseded by iobench ........ r70043 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:13:50 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Remove the last traces of java naming in test_io ........ r70044 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:18:34 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Better resource cleanup ........ r70045 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:29:00 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Remove dubious uses of super(), and fix one test ........ r70046 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-27 19:31:00 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Bump up CHUNK_SIZE (no need to make the Python version look slower than it is) ........ r70047 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 20:03:26 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line fix typo ........ r70048 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-27 21:35:11 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line move code to a better place ........ r70067 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 10:43:20 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 4 lines 1. make sure to undo buffered read aheads in BufferedRandom.seek() 2. refill the buffer if have <= 0 3. fix the last failing test_io test! ........ r70068 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 10:57:50 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line define read1() on the python implementation's BufferedIOBase ........ r70069 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 11:01:17 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line document read1() in BufferedIOBase ........ r70070 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-28 11:06:42 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line give credit where credit is due ........ r70075 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-02-28 13:34:59 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 3 lines Amaury's name ........ r70112 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-03-02 17:11:55 -0600 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) | 4 lines Looks like this is necessary in order to build cleanly under Windows (someone correct this if it's wrong, I'm no Windows user) ........ r70133 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 15:23:32 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line fix test_newline_property on _pyio.StringIO ........ r70135 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 15:47:30 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line fix typos and inconsistencies. thanks to Daniel Diniz ........ r70140 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 16:21:10 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line add the test from #5266 ........ |
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readme.txt
Building Python using VC++ 6.0 or 5.0 ------------------------------------- This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows 2000 and XP. It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x or 5.x and Platform SDK February 2003 Edition (Core SDK). You can download this SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm. (For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../readme.txt.) All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.dsw" in MSVC++, select the Debug or Release setting (using Build -> Set Active Configuration...), and build the projects. The proper order to build subprojects: 1) pythoncore (this builds the main Python DLL and library files, python31.{dll, lib} in Release mode) 2) python (this builds the main Python executable, python.exe in Release mode) 3) the other subprojects, as desired or needed (note: you probably don't want to build most of the other subprojects, unless you're building an entire Python distribution from scratch, or specifically making changes to the subsystems they implement; see SUBPROJECTS below) When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to their name: python31_d.dll, python_d.exe, pyexpat_d.pyd, and so on. SUBPROJECTS ----------- These subprojects should build out of the box. Subprojects other than the main ones (pythoncore, python, pythonw) generally build a DLL (renamed to .pyd) from a specific module so that users don't have to load the code supporting that module unless they import the module. pythoncore .dll and .lib python .exe pythonw pythonw.exe, a variant of python.exe that doesn't pop up a DOS box _msi _msi.c. You need to install Windows Installer SDK to build this module. _socket socketmodule.c _testcapi tests of the Python C API, run via Lib/test/test_capi.py, and implemented by module Modules/_testcapimodule.c pyexpat Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing, which incorporates stable code from the Expat project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ select selectmodule.c unicodedata large tables of Unicode data winsound play sounds (typically .wav files) under Windows The following subprojects 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\. _tkinter Python wrapper for the Tk windowing system. Requires building Tcl/Tk first. Following are instructions for Tcl/Tk 8.5.2. Get source ---------- In the dist directory, run svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl-8.5.2.1 tcl8.5.2 svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk-8.5.2.0 tk8.5.2 svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.3.1 tix8.4.3 Debug Build ----------- To build debug version, add DEBUG=1 to all nmake call bellow. Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 6 on Win2K) --------------- If your environment doesn't have struct _stat64, you need to apply tcl852.patch in this directory to dist\tcl8.5.2\generic\tcl.h. cd dist\tcl8.5.2\win run vcvars32.bat nmake -f makefile.vc nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads? Optional: run tests, via nmake -f makefile.vc test all.tcl: Total 24242 Passed 23358 Skipped 877 Failed 7 Sourced 137 Test Files. Files with failing tests: exec.test http.test io.test main.test string.test stri ngObj.test Build Tk -------- cd dist\tk8.5.2\win nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.5.2 nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.5.2 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads? XXX I have no idea whether "nmake -f makefile.vc test" passed or XXX failed. It popped up tons of little windows, and did lots of XXX stuff, and nothing blew up. Build Tix --------- cd dist\tix8.4.3\win nmake -f python.mak TCL_MAJOR=8 TCL_MINOR=5 TCL_PATCH=2 MACHINE=IX86 DEBUG=0 nmake -f python.mak TCL_MAJOR=8 TCL_MINOR=5 TCL_PATCH=2 MACHINE=IX86 DEBUG=0 INSTALL_DIR=..\..\tcltk install bz2 Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library. Homepage http://www.bzip.org/ Download the source from the python.org copy into the dist directory: svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.5 And requires building bz2 first. cd dist\bzip2-1.0.5 nmake -f makefile.msc All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.5\libbz2.lib, which the Python project links in. _sqlite3 Python wrapper for SQLite library. Get the source code through svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/sqlite-source-3.3.4 To use the extension module in a Python build tree, copy sqlite3.dll into the PC/VC6 folder. _ssl Python wrapper for the secure sockets library. Get the latest source code for OpenSSL from http://www.openssl.org You (probably) don't want the "engine" code. For example, get openssl-0.9.6g.tar.gz not openssl-engine-0.9.6g.tar.gz Unpack into the "dist" directory, retaining the folder name from the archive - for example, the latest stable OpenSSL will install as dist/openssl-0.9.6g You can (theoretically) use any version of OpenSSL you like - the build process will automatically select the latest version. You must also install ActivePerl from http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ as this is used by the OpenSSL build process. Complain to them <wink>. The MSVC project simply invokes PC/VC6/build_ssl.py to perform the build. This Python script locates and builds your OpenSSL installation, then invokes a simple makefile to build the final .pyd. build_ssl.py attempts to catch the most common errors (such as not being able to find OpenSSL sources, or not being able to find a Perl that works with OpenSSL) and give a reasonable error message. If you have a problem that doesn't seem to be handled correctly (eg, you know you have ActivePerl but we can't find it), please take a peek at build_ssl.py and suggest patches. Note that build_ssl.py should be able to be run directly from the command-line. build_ssl.py/MSVC isn't clever enough to clean OpenSSL - you must do this by hand. YOUR OWN EXTENSION DLLs ----------------------- If you want to create your own extension module DLL, there's an example with easy-to-follow instructions in ../PC/example/; read the file readme.txt there first.