<p dir="ltr">On Jul 24, 2015 8:30 AM, "Mark Kelley" <<a href="mailto:keeely3@gmail.com">keeely3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I have been using Python for some time but it's been a decade since<br>
> I've tried to build it from source, back in the 2.4 days. Things seem<br>
> to have gotten a little more complicated now.<br>
><br>
> I've read through the PCBuild/README file and got most stuff<br>
> compiling. I find it a little odd that there are special instructions<br>
> for the building the release version of tcl/tk. Is that what the<br>
> developers actually do when they cut a release, or is there some<br>
> other, top-level script that does this automatically? It just seems<br>
> odd.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That used to be standard procedure, yes. However, I just recently backported the project files from 3.5, which include project files for building Tcl/Tk and Tix, in both Debug and Release configurations, so I may have missed some stuff that could be removed from PCbuild/readme.txt. You do need some extra stuff to build 2.7 with its new project files, though (which i know is now covered in readme.txt). There hasn't been a release with those project files yet though, they're just in the hg repo.</p>
<p dir="ltr">> Anyhow, my specific question is around the distutils wininst stubs,<br>
> provided as binaries in the release tarball. Where can I find the<br>
> source files that those binaries are built from?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I believe the source for those is in PC/bdist_wininst/, or some very similar path.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hope this helps,<br>
--<br>
Zach<br>
(On a phone)</p>