Note that the support is not actually enabled yet, and so we won't be publishing these packages. However, for those who want to build it themselves (even by reusing the Azure Pipelines definition), it's now relatively easy to enable.
Using a response file will eliminate the headache associated with batch argument/quote processing.
For example I unsucessfully compiled python with visualcpptools when specifying VSInstallDir in the batch file (cannot find vcruntime.h)
```batch
build.bat -p x64 -e -M --no-tkinter "/p:VCInstallDir=%VCInstallDir%"
```
but it build successfully when specifying it in a response file
msbuild.rsp:
```
/p:VCInstallDir=%VCInstallDir%
```
This modifies the behavior of the '-e' flag to PCbuild\build.bat: when '-e'
is not supplied, no attempt will be made to build extension modules that
require external libraries, even if the external libraries are present.
Also adds '--no-<module>' flags to PCbuild\build.bat, where '<module>' is
one of 'ssl', 'tkinter', or 'bsddb', to allow skipping just those modules
(if '-e' is given).
Rather than using Burn "Persisted" variables we now add registry keys for each added feature. These can be detected by the installer regardless of which version installed them, and we use this for Modify and Upgrade. In particular, Upgrades can't access the Persisted variables, but can find well-known registry keys.
There are also some changes to the bootstrap app to properly handle upgrades.
Finally, a few minor improvements to the Windows build to keep things tidier.
Double quotes in expanded variables can match literal double quotes,
which makes for a big mess when passing in a quoted argument (like
"/p:externalsDir=..\externals", for example).
The user-facing scripts in PCbuild have been updated to be easier to use
and the buildbot scripts in Tools\buildbot have been updated to use the
user-facing scripts in PCbuild wherever possible.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r60696 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-09 20:55:22 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 5 lines
Issue #1706: Require Windows 2000+
Added Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULES macro to set WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION to Windows 2000 for core modules, too
Added -d option to build.bat (same as -c Debug) and fixed warning about /build option
Updated Windows related readme.txt files
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
NOTE: I blocked the following revisions:
svnmerge.py block -r 60521,60522,60528,60529,60534,60539
The new tests must be merged with lots of manual work.
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r60493 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 12:59:08 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Update IPv6 RFC number.
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r60497 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 16:50:15 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Add link checker builder, written for GHOP by Thomas Lamb.
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r60500 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 19:08:09 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Rename batch file.
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r60504 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-01 19:49:26 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line
More int -> pid_t.
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r60507 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 20:24:01 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Wording nit.
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r60510 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-01 21:45:33 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Update for latest sphinx latex writer.
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r60511 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 22:30:23 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Issue #1996: float.as_integer_ratio() should return fraction in lowest terms.
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r60512 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 23:15:52 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Integer ratio should return ints instead of longs whereever possible.
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r60513 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 23:22:50 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line
labs() takes a long for an input.
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r60514 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-01 23:42:59 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Test round-trip on float.as_integer_ratio() and float.__truediv__().
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r60515 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2008-02-01 23:58:17 +0100 (Fri, 01 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Bump distutils version number to match Python version.
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r60516 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 00:12:19 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Fix int/long typecase. Add check for non-binary floating point.
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r60517 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 00:45:44 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Add protection from weirdness while scaling the mantissa to an integer.
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r60518 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 06:11:40 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Simpler solution to handling non-IEEE 754 environments.
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r60519 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-02 06:24:44 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Neaten-up a bit.
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r60520 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 10:56:20 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Amendments to the urllib2 docs, written for GHOP by Thomas Lamb.
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r60525 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 11:49:58 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Add email example how to send a multipart message.
Written for GHOP by Martin Matejek.
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r60526 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 12:05:00 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Rewrite test_socketserver as unittest, written for GHOP by Benjamin Petersen.
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r60527 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-02 12:05:34 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Add GHOP contributor.
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r60530 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-02 18:16:13 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Make the Rational constructor accept '3.' and '.2' as well as '3.2'.
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r60531 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-02 19:52:51 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Update the leaky tests (ie, ignore these tests if they report leaks). This version has been running for a while.
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r60533 | skip.montanaro | 2008-02-02 20:11:57 +0100 (Sat, 02 Feb 2008) | 7 lines
Split the refleak mail body into two parts, the first being those failing
tests which are deemed more important issues, the second those which are
known to have difficult to solve problems and are generally expected to
leak. Hopefully this doesn't break the script...
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r60535 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-03 01:04:50 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Wait for a delay before reaping children -- this should fix the
test_socketserver failures on several platforms.
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r60536 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 03:07:55 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Fix a minor typo.
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r60537 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 03:08:45 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 3 lines
Directories from CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS were being added in the reverse order for
searches as to how they were listed in the environment variable.
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r60538 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 03:34:14 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Remove extra tick marks and add a missing closing parenthesis.
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r60540 | andrew.macintyre | 2008-02-03 07:58:06 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Update OS/2 EMX build bits for 2.6.
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r60541 | andrew.macintyre | 2008-02-03 08:01:11 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Rename module definition file to reflect v2.6.
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r60542 | andrew.macintyre | 2008-02-03 08:07:31 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 6 lines
The wrapper function is supposed to be for spawnvpe() so that's
what we should call [this wrapper only available on OS/2].
Backport candidate to 2.5.
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r60544 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-02-03 08:20:53 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 6 lines
Merge this fix from the pybsddb tree:
r293 | jcea | 2008-01-31 01:08:19 -0800 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
Solved memory leak when using cursors with
databases without environment.
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r60546 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-02-03 09:01:46 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
remove a repeated occurance of a hardcoded berkeleydb library version number
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r60549 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-03 10:59:21 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Add an entry for r60537.
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r60550 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-03 13:29:00 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
#2003: fix sentence.
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r60551 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-03 15:34:18 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 2 lines
Fixed paths to Windows build directories in build_ext.py
Use vsbuild instead of devenv in build.bat and _bsddb.vcproj
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I figured out that the files may suite other developers. The files take care of most problems and makes building Python on Windows easier. Simply double click on build_env.bat to open a shell and type build.
Miss Islington (bot)
Steve Dower
Paul Monson
Jeremy Kloth
Steve Dower
Zachary Ware
Charles
Brian Curtin
Christian Heimes