cpython/PCbuild
Guido van Rossum cd16bf6404 Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

................
  r55837 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-08 16:04:42 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  PEP 3119 -- the abc module.
................
  r55838 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-08 17:38:55 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Implement part of PEP 3119 -- One Trick Ponies.
................
  r55847 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-09 08:28:06 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Different way to do one trick ponies, allowing registration (per PEP strawman).
................
  r55849 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-09 18:06:38 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  Make sure that the magic looking for __hash__ (etc.) doesn't apply to
  real subclasses of Hashable.
................
  r55852 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-10 08:29:51 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Add some more examples, e.g. generators and dict views.
................
  r55853 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-10 08:31:59 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  keys() and items() *are* containers -- just values() isn't.
................
  r55864 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:29:40 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  PEP 3127: new octal literals, binary literals.
................
  r55865 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:31:37 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Some octal literal fixes in Tools.
................
  r55866 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:37:43 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Tokenizer changes for PEP 3127.
................
  r55867 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:37:55 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Some docs for PEP 3127.
................
  r55868 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-10 15:44:39 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Missed a place in intobject.c. Is that used anymore anyway?
................
  r55871 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:31:49 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 182 lines

  Merged revisions 55729-55868 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

  ........
    r55731 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-01 00:29:12 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 7 lines

    SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
    even if package_dir is empty.

    This needs to be backported.  I'm too tired tonight.  It would be great
    if someone backports this if the buildbots are ok with it.  Otherwise,
    I will try to get to it tomorrow.
  ........
    r55732 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-01 04:33:33 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #1722484: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
  ........
    r55735 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-01 12:20:27 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix wrong issue number.
  ........
    r55739 | brett.cannon | 2007-06-01 20:02:29 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Have configure raise an error when building on AtheOS.  Code specific to AtheOS
    will be removed in Python 2.7.
  ........
    r55746 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 11:33:53 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Update expected birthday of 2.6
  ........
    r55751 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-03 13:32:50 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 10 lines

    Backout the original 'fix' to 1721309 which had no effect.
    Different versions of Berkeley DB handle this differently.
    The comments and bug report should have the details.  Memory is allocated
    in 4.4 (and presumably earlier), but not in 4.5.  Thus
    4.5 has the free error, but not earlier versions.

    Mostly update comments, plus make the free conditional.

    This fix was already applied to the 2.5 branch.
  ........
    r55752 | brett.cannon | 2007-06-03 16:13:41 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 6 lines

    Make _strptime.TimeRE().pattern() use ``\s+`` for matching whitespace instead
    of ``\s*``.  This prevents patterns from "stealing" bits from other patterns in
    order to make a match work.

    Closes bug #1730389.  Will be backported.
  ........
    r55766 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 11:16:52 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Fix build on FreeBSD.  Bluetooth HCI API in FreeBSD is quite different
    from Linux's.  Just fix the build for now but the code doesn't
    support the complete capability of HCI on FreeBSD yet.
  ........
    r55770 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 11:58:51 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
    reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
    for .read() is specified.
  ........
    r55775 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-06-05 12:28:15 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix for Windows: close a temporary file before trying to delete it.
  ........
    r55783 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-05 14:24:47 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Patch by Tim Delany (missing DECREF). SF #1731330.
  ........
    r55785 | collin.winter | 2007-06-05 17:17:35 -0700 (Tue, 05 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Patch #1731049: make threading.py use a proper "raise" when checking internal state, rather than assert statements (which get stripped out by -O).
  ........
    r55786 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-06 08:13:37 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 4 lines


    FTP.ntransfercmd method now uses create_connection when passive,
    using the timeout received in connection time.
  ........
    r55792 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-06 10:15:23 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 7 lines


    Added an optional timeout parameter to function urllib2.urlopen,
    with tests in test_urllib2net.py (must have network resource
    enabled to execute them). Also modified test_urllib2.py because
    testing mock classes must take it into acount. Docs are also
    updated.
  ........
    r55793 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-06 13:19:19 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Build _ctypes and _ctypes_test in the ReleaseAMD64 configuration.
  ........
    r55802 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:23:24 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Disallow function calls like foo(None=1).
    Backport from py3k rev. 55708 by Guido.
  ........
    r55804 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:30:24 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Make reindent.py executable.
  ........
    r55805 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-07 06:34:10 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Patch #1667860: Fix UnboundLocalError in urllib2.
  ........
    r55821 | kristjan.jonsson | 2007-06-07 16:53:49 -0700 (Thu, 07 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Fixing changes to getbuildinfo.c that broke linux builds
  ........
    r55828 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 09:10:27 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Make this test work with older Python releases where struct has no 't' format character.
  ........
    r55829 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-08 10:29:20 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
    Will backport to 2.5.
  ........
    r55831 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 11:20:09 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    [ 1715718 ] x64 clean compile patch for _ctypes, by Kristj?n Valur
    with small modifications.
  ........
    r55832 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:01:06 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Fix gcc warnings intruduced by passing Py_ssize_t to PyErr_Format calls.
  ........
    r55833 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:08:31 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix wrong documentation, and correct the punktuation.
    Closes [1700455].
  ........
    r55834 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-08 12:14:23 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Fix warnings by using proper function prototype.
  ........
    r55839 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-08 20:36:34 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 7 lines

    Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault when
    a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.  Found by Google.

    It would be good for people to review this especially carefully and verify
    I don't have an off by one error and there is no other way to cause overflow.
  ........
    r55841 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-08 21:48:22 -0700 (Fri, 08 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Use macro version of GET_SIZE to avoid Coverity warning (#150) about a possible error.
  ........
    r55842 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 00:42:52 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
    Will backport to 2.5.
  ........
    r55843 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 00:58:05 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix Windows build.
  ........
    r55845 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-09 03:10:26 -0700 (Sat, 09 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Provide LLONG_MAX for S390.
  ........
    r55854 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 08:59:17 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines


    First version of build scripts for Windows/AMD64 (no external
    components are built yet, and 'kill_python' is disabled).
  ........
    r55855 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 10:55:51 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    For now, disable the _bsddb, _sqlite3, _ssl, _testcapi, _tkinter
    modules in the ReleaseAMD64 configuration because they do not compile.
  ........
    r55856 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 11:27:54 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Need to set the environment variables, otherwise devenv.com is not found.
  ........
    r55860 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-10 14:01:17 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Revert commit 55855.
  ........
................
  r55880 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:07:36 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix the refleak counter on test_collections.  The ABC metaclass creates
  a registry which must be cleared on each run.  Otherwise, there *seem*
  to be refleaks when there really aren't any.  (The class is held within
  the registry even though it's no longer needed.)
................
  r55884 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:46:33 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  These tests have been removed, so they are no longer needed here
................
  r55886 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 00:26:37 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  Optimize access to True and False in the compiler (if True)
  and the peepholer (LOAD_NAME True).
................
  r55905 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:02:26 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

  Remove __oct__ and __hex__ and use __index__ for converting
  non-ints before formatting in a base.

  Add a bin() builtin.
................
  r55906 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:04:44 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  int(x, 0) does not "guess".
................
  r55907 | georg.brandl | 2007-06-11 10:05:47 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a comment to explain that nb_oct and nb_hex are nonfunctional.
................
  r55908 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 10:49:18 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Get rid of unused imports and comment.
................
  r55910 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:05:17 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  _Abstract.__new__ now requires either no arguments or __init__ overridden.
................
  r55911 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:07:49 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 7 lines

  Move the collections ABCs to a separate file, _abcoll.py, in order to avoid
  needing to import _collections.so during the bootstrap (this will become
  apparent in the next submit of os.py).

  Add (plain and mutable) ABCs for Set, Mapping, Sequence.
................
  r55912 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:09:31 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Rewrite the _Environ class to use the new collections ABCs.
................
  r55913 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 13:59:45 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 72 lines

  Merged revisions 55869-55912 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

  ........
    r55869 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 17:42:11 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Add Atul Varma for patch # 1667860
  ........
    r55870 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:22:03 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Ignore valgrind problems on Ubuntu from ld
  ........
    r55872 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 18:48:46 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Ignore config.status.lineno which seems new (new autoconf?)
  ........
    r55873 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 19:14:39 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Prevent these tests from running on Win64 since they don\'t apply there either
  ........
    r55874 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 19:16:10 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

    Fix a bug when there was a newline in the string expandtabs was called on.
    This also catches another condition that can overflow.

    Will backport.
  ........
    r55879 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 21:52:37 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Prevent hang if the port cannot be opened.
  ........
    r55881 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:28:45 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Add all of the distuils modules that don't seem to have explicit tests. :-(
    Move an import in mworkscompiler so that this module can be imported on
    any platform.  Hopefully this works on all platforms.
  ........
    r55882 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 22:35:10 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    SF #1734732, lower case the module names per PEP 8.

    Will backport.
  ........
    r55885 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-10 23:16:48 -0700 (Sun, 10 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Not sure why this only fails sometimes on Unix machines. Better
    to disable it and only import msvccompiler on Windows since that's
    the only place it can work anyways.
  ........
    r55887 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-11 00:29:43 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

    Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.

    Will backport
  ........
    r55889 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-11 00:36:24 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Reflow long line
  ........
    r55896 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-11 08:58:33 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Use "O&" in calls to PyArg_Parse when we need a 'void*' instead of "k"
    or "K" codes.
  ........
    r55901 | facundo.batista | 2007-06-11 09:27:08 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines


    Added versionchanged flag to all the methods which received
    a new optional timeout parameter, and a versionadded flag to
    the socket.create_connection function.
  ........
................
  r55914 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 14:19:50 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  New super() implementation, for PEP 3135 (though the PEP is not yet updated
  to this design, and small tweaks may still be made later).
................
  r55923 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 21:15:24 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 4 lines

  I'm guessing this module broke when Neal ripped out the types module --
  it used 'list' both as a local variable and as the built-in list type.
  Renamed the local variable since that was easier.
................
  r55924 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-11 21:20:05 -0700 (Mon, 11 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

  Change all occurrences of super(<thisclass>, <firstarg>) to super().
  Seems to have worked, all the tests still pass.
  Exception: test_descr and test_descrtut, which have tons of these
  and are there to test the various usages.
................
  r55939 | collin.winter | 2007-06-12 13:57:33 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Patch #1735485: remove StandardError from the exception hierarchy.
................
  r55954 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-12 21:56:32 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 51 lines

  Merged revisions 55913-55950 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

  ........
    r55926 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-06-12 02:09:58 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Apply patch #1734945 to support TurboLinux as distribution.
  ........
    r55927 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-06-12 02:26:49 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Add patch #1726668: Windows Vista support.
  ........
    r55929 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 08:36:22 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 1 line

    Checkout, but do not yet try to build, exernal sources.
  ........
    r55930 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 09:08:27 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 6 lines

    Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the
    right thing to do?).

    Set the /XP64 /RETAIL build enviroment in the makefile when building
    ReleaseAMD64.
  ........
    r55931 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 09:23:19 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 5 lines

    Revert this change, since it breaks the win32 build:

    Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the
    right thing to do?).
  ........
    r55934 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 10:28:31 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Specify the bufferoverflowU.lib to the makefile on the command line
    (for ReleaseAMD64 builds).
  ........
    r55937 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 12:02:59 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Add bufferoverflowU.lib to PCBuild\_bsddb.vcproj.
    Build sqlite3.dll and bsddb.
  ........
    r55938 | thomas.heller | 2007-06-12 12:56:12 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

    Don't rebuild Berkeley DB if not needed (this was committed by accident).
  ........
    r55948 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-06-12 20:42:19 -0700 (Tue, 12 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

    Provide PY_LLONG_MAX on all systems having long long.
    Will backport to 2.5.
  ........
................
  r55959 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-13 09:22:41 -0700 (Wed, 13 Jun 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix a compilation warning.
................
2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
..
Uninstal.wse New runtime vrbl DOADMIN. When false, we never try to write under HKLM, 2001-08-05 04:12:30 +00:00
_bsddb.vcproj Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
_ctypes.vcproj Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
_ctypes_test.vcproj Merge with trunk up to revision 45620. 2006-04-21 16:44:05 +00:00
_elementtree.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
_msi.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
_socket.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
_sqlite3.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
_ssl.mak Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
_ssl.vcproj Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
_testcapi.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
_tkinter.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
amd64_ml64.bat Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
build_ssl.bat Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
build_ssl.py Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
bz2.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
db.build Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
field3.py The MS resource compiler simply cannot be convinced to do arithmetic 2002-10-11 18:25:52 +00:00
installer.bmp Much-needed merge (using svnmerge.py this time) of trunk changes into p3yk. 2006-05-27 19:21:47 +00:00
make_buildinfo.c Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
make_buildinfo.vcproj Deleted the svn_mime-type application/octet-stream from PCBuild/pcbuild.sln. 2006-03-09 18:49:35 +00:00
make_versioninfo.vcproj Patch #1307806: Use project defaults where possible 2006-01-03 07:38:51 +00:00
pcbuild.sln Merged revisions 55817-55961 via svnmerge from 2007-06-13 18:07:49 +00:00
pyexpat.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
python.build Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair 2006-04-21 10:40:58 +00:00
python.iss Merged revisions 55328-55341 via svnmerge from 2007-05-15 18:46:22 +00:00
python.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
python20.wse Merged revisions 53005-53303 via svnmerge from 2007-01-09 23:18:33 +00:00
pythoncore.vcproj Merged revisions 55631-55794 via svnmerge from 2007-06-06 23:52:48 +00:00
pythonw.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
readme.txt Merge current trunk into p3yk. This includes the PyNumber_Index API change, 2006-08-21 19:07:27 +00:00
rmpyc.py Use os.walk() to find files to delete. 2003-04-26 00:53:24 +00:00
rt.bat More cmd.exe exploitation. 2004-08-30 22:13:22 +00:00
select.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
unicodedata.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
w9xpopen.vcproj Patch #1307806: Use project defaults where possible 2006-01-03 07:38:51 +00:00
winsound.vcproj Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00

readme.txt

Building Python using VC++ 7.1
-------------------------------------
This directory is used to build Python for Win32 platforms, e.g. Windows
95, 98 and NT.  It requires Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1
(a.k.a. Visual Studio .NET 2003).
(For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.)

All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.sln" in MSVC++, select
the Debug or Release setting (using "Solution Configuration" from
the "Standard" toolbar"), and build the projects.

The proper order to build subprojects:

1) pythoncore (this builds the main Python DLL and library files,
               python26.{dll, lib} in Release mode)
              NOTE:  in previous releases, this subproject was
              named after the release number, e.g. python20.

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, or are running a Python core buildbot
   test slave; see SUBPROJECTS below)

When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
their name:  python26_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_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
_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 8.4.12.

    Get source
    ----------
    In the dist directory, run
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12
    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.0

    Build Tcl first (done here w/ MSVC 7.1 on Windows XP)
    ---------------
    Use "Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
         -> Visual Studio .NET Tools -> Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt"
    to get a shell window with the correct environment settings
    cd dist\tcl8.4.12\win
    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

        On WinXP Pro, wholly up to date as of 30-Aug-2004:
        all.tcl:        Total   10678   Passed  9969    Skipped 709     Failed  0
        Sourced 129 Test Files.

    Build Tk
    --------
    cd dist\tk8.4.12\win
    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12
    nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install

    XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?

    XXX Our installer copies a lot of stuff out of the Tcl/Tk install
    XXX directory.  Is all of that really needed for Python use of Tcl/Tk?

    Optional:  run tests, via
        nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 test

        On WinXP Pro, wholly up to date as of 30-Aug-2004:
        all.tcl:        Total   8420    Passed  6826    Skipped 1581    Failed  13
        Sourced 91 Test Files.
        Files with failing tests: canvImg.test scrollbar.test textWind.test winWm.test

   Built Tix
   ---------
   cd dist\tix-8.4.0\win
   nmake -f python.mak
   nmake -f python.mak install

bz2
    Python wrapper for the libbz2 compression library.  Homepage
        http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/
    Download the source from the python.org copy into the dist
    directory:

    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.3

    A custom pre-link step in the bz2 project settings should manage to
    build bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib by magic before bz2.pyd (or bz2_d.pyd) is
    linked in PCbuild\.
    However, the bz2 project is not smart enough to remove anything under
    bzip2-1.0.3\ when you do a clean, so if you want to rebuild bzip2.lib
    you need to clean up bzip2-1.0.3\ by hand.

    The build step shouldn't yield any warnings or errors, and should end
    by displaying 6 blocks each terminated with
        FC: no differences encountered

    All of this managed to build bzip2-1.0.3\libbz2.lib, which the Python
    project links in.


_bsddb
    To use the version of bsddb that Python is built with by default, invoke
    (in the dist directory)

     svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/db-4.4.20


    Then open a VS.NET 2003 shell, and invoke:

       devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build Release /project db_static

    and do that a second time for a Debug build too:

       devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build Debug /project db_static

    Alternatively, if you want to start with the original sources,
    go to Sleepycat's download page:
        http://www.sleepycat.com/downloads/releasehistorybdb.html

    and download version 4.4.20.

    With or without strong cryptography? You can choose either with or
    without strong cryptography, as per the instructions below.  By
    default, Python is built and distributed WITHOUT strong crypto.

    Unpack the sources; if you downloaded the non-crypto version, rename
    the directory from db-4.4.20.NC to db-4.4.20.

    Now apply any patches that apply to your version.

    Open
        dist\db-4.4.20\docs\index.html

    and follow the "Windows->Building Berkeley DB with Visual C++ .NET"
    instructions for building the Sleepycat
    software.  Note that Berkeley_DB.dsw is in the build_win32 subdirectory.
    Build the "db_static" project, for "Release" mode.

    To run extensive tests, pass "-u bsddb" to regrtest.py.  test_bsddb3.py
    is then enabled.  Running in verbose mode may be helpful.

    XXX The test_bsddb3 tests don't always pass, on Windows (according to
    XXX me) or on Linux (according to Barry).  (I had much better luck
    XXX on Win2K than on Win98SE.)  The common failure mode across platforms
    XXX is
    XXX     DBAgainError: (11, 'Resource temporarily unavailable -- unable
    XXX                         to join the environment')
    XXX
    XXX and it appears timing-dependent.  On Win2K I also saw this once:
    XXX
    XXX test02_SimpleLocks (bsddb.test.test_thread.HashSimpleThreaded) ...
    XXX Exception in thread reader 1:
    XXX Traceback (most recent call last):
    XXX File "C:\Code\python\lib\threading.py", line 411, in __bootstrap
    XXX    self.run()
    XXX File "C:\Code\python\lib\threading.py", line 399, in run
    XXX    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
    XXX File "C:\Code\python\lib\bsddb\test\test_thread.py", line 268, in
    XXX                  readerThread
    XXX    rec = c.next()
    XXX DBLockDeadlockError: (-30996, 'DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK: Locker killed
    XXX                                to resolve a deadlock')
    XXX
    XXX I'm told that DBLockDeadlockError is expected at times.  It
    XXX doesn't cause a test to fail when it happens (exceptions in
    XXX threads are invisible to unittest).

    Building for Win64:
    - open a VS.NET 2003 command prompt
    - run the SDK setenv.cmd script, passing /RETAIL and the target
      architecture (/SRV64 for Itanium, /X64 for AMD64)
    - build BerkeleyDB with the solution configuration matching the
      target ("Release IA64" for Itanium, "Release AMD64" for AMD64), e.g.
    devenv db-4.4.20\build_win32\Berkeley_DB.sln /build "Release AMD64" /project db_static /useenv

_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 PCbuild folder.

_ssl
    Python wrapper for the secure sockets library.

    Get the source code through

    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-0.9.8a

    Alternatively, get the latest version from http://www.openssl.org.
    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 PCBuild/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.

Building for Itanium
--------------------

The project files support a ReleaseItanium configuration which creates
Win64/Itanium binaries. For this to work, you need to install the Platform
SDK, in particular the 64-bit support. This includes an Itanium compiler
(future releases of the SDK likely include an AMD64 compiler as well).
In addition, you need the Visual Studio plugin for external C compilers,
from http://sf.net/projects/vsextcomp. The plugin will wrap cl.exe, to
locate the proper target compiler, and convert compiler options
accordingly. The project files require atleast version 0.9.

Building for AMD64
------------------

The build process for the ReleaseAMD64 configuration is very similar
to the Itanium configuration; make sure you use the latest version of
vsextcomp.

Building Python Using the free MS Toolkit Compiler
--------------------------------------------------

The build process for Visual C++ can be used almost unchanged with the free MS
Toolkit Compiler. This provides a way of building Python using freely
available software.

Note that Microsoft have withdrawn the free MS Toolkit Compiler, so this can
no longer be considered a supported option. The instructions are still
correct, but you need to already have a copy of the compiler in order to use
them. Microsoft now supply Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition for free, but this
is NOT compatible with Visual C++ 7.1 (it uses a different C runtime), and so
cannot be used to build a version of Python compatible with the standard
python.org build. If you are interested in using Visual C++ 2005 Express
Edition, however, you should look at the PCBuild8 directory.

Requirements

    To build Python, the following tools are required:

    * The Visual C++ Toolkit Compiler
        no longer available for download - see above
    * A recent Platform SDK
        from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=484269e2-3b89-47e3-8eb7-1f2be6d7123a
    * The .NET 1.1 SDK
        from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b3a2ca6-3647-4070-9f41-a333c6b9181d

    [Does anyone have better URLs for the last 2 of these?]

    The toolkit compiler is needed as it is an optimising compiler (the
    compiler supplied with the .NET SDK is a non-optimising version). The
    platform SDK is needed to provide the Windows header files and libraries
    (the Windows 2003 Server SP1 edition, typical install, is known to work -
    other configurations or versions are probably fine as well). The .NET 1.1
    SDK is needed because it contains a version of msvcrt.dll which links to
    the msvcr71.dll CRT. Note that the .NET 2.0 SDK is NOT acceptable, as it
    references msvcr80.dll.

    All of the above items should be installed as normal.

    If you intend to build the openssl (needed for the _ssl extension) you
    will need the C runtime sources installed as part of the platform SDK.

    In addition, you will need Nant, available from
    http://nant.sourceforge.net. The 0.85 release candidate 3 version is known
    to work. This is the latest released version at the time of writing. Later
    "nightly build" versions are known NOT to work - it is not clear at
    present whether future released versions will work.

Setting up the environment

    Start a platform SDK "build environment window" from the start menu. The
    "Windows XP 32-bit retail" version is known to work.

    Add the following directories to your PATH:
        * The toolkit compiler directory
        * The SDK "Win64" binaries directory
	* The Nant directory
    Add to your INCLUDE environment variable:
        * The toolkit compiler INCLUDE directory
    Add to your LIB environment variable:
        * The toolkit compiler LIB directory
	* The .NET SDK Visual Studio 2003 VC7\lib directory

    The following commands should set things up as you need them:

        rem Set these values according to where you installed the software
        set TOOLKIT=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
        set SDK=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK
        set NET=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
        set NANT=C:\Utils\Nant

        set PATH=%TOOLKIT%\bin;%PATH%;%SDK%\Bin\win64;%NANT%\bin
        set INCLUDE=%TOOLKIT%\include;%INCLUDE%
        set LIB=%TOOLKIT%\lib;%NET%\VC7\lib;%LIB%

    The "win64" directory from the SDK is added to supply executables such as
    "cvtres" and "lib", which are not available elsewhere. The versions in the
    "win64" directory are 32-bit programs, so they are fine to use here.

    That's it. To build Python (the core only, no binary extensions which
    depend on external libraries) you just need to issue the command

        nant -buildfile:python.build all

    from within the PCBuild directory.

Extension modules

    To build those extension modules which require external libraries
    (_tkinter, bz2, _bsddb, _sqlite3, _ssl) you can follow the instructions
    for the Visual Studio build above, with a few minor modifications. These
    instructions have only been tested using the sources in the Python
    subversion repository - building from original sources should work, but
    has not been tested.

    For each extension module you wish to build, you should remove the
    associated include line from the excludeprojects section of pc.build.

    The changes required are:

    _tkinter
        The tix makefile (tix-8.4.0\win\makefile.vc) must be modified to
	remove references to TOOLS32. The relevant lines should be changed to
	read:
            cc32 = cl.exe
            link32 = link.exe
            include32 = 
	The remainder of the build instructions will work as given.

    bz2
        No changes are needed

    _bsddb
        The file db.build should be copied from the Python PCBuild directory
	to the directory db-4.4.20\build_win32.

	The file db_static.vcproj in db-4.4.20\build_win32 should be edited to
	remove the string "$(SolutionDir)" - this occurs in 2 places, only
	relevant for 64-bit builds. (The edit is required as otherwise, nant
	wants to read the solution file, which is not in a suitable form).

	The bsddb library can then be build with the command
	    nant -buildfile:db.build all
	run from the db-4.4.20\build_win32 directory.

    _sqlite3
        No changes are needed. However, in order for the tests to succeed, a
	copy of sqlite3.dll must be downloaded, and placed alongside
	python.exe.

    _ssl
        The documented build process works as written. However, it needs a
	copy of the file setargv.obj, which is not supplied in the platform
	SDK. However, the sources are available (in the crt source code). To
	build setargv.obj, proceed as follows:

        Copy setargv.c, cruntime.h and internal.h from %SDK%\src\crt to a
	temporary directory.
	Compile using "cl /c /I. /MD /D_CRTBLD setargv.c"
	Copy the resulting setargv.obj to somewhere on your LIB environment
	(%SDK%\lib is a reasonable place).

	With setargv.obj in place, the standard build process should work
	fine.

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.