Am 08.05.14 18:59, schrieb Brian Curtin:

This is mostly a question for Martin, but perhaps someone else would also know.

I'm trying to build the 2.7 installers so I can backport the path option from 3.3, but I can't seem to figure out which version of Tix is necessary to have a complete build. So far any of them on http://svn.python.org/projects/external don't appear to be configured to work with the combination of tcl and tk that are used on 2.7, per the buildbot external scripts. It's another issue that Tix isn't even downloaded by the scripts, but I'll do it manually right now just to get this going.

Any tips?

Ah, 2.7. I was using a checkout of tix-8.4.3.x from Nov 13, 2010, one where python.mak was pointing to Tcl 8.5.2. It may not have been tagged. In 2.7, it wasn't checked out out automatically because Tix requires the original Tcl/Tk path names, so building it automatically would have failed. Regards, Martin

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:

I updated the 2.7 buildbot scripts to pull in Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 a couple of weeks ago (see http://bugs.python.org/issue21303), but hadn't gotten anything done with Tix yet. It should just need python.mak updated to point to Tcl/Tk 8.5.15; it's on my list to get fixed as soon as I can.

Tix for 2.7 is now http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.3.5. You can build it with this monster of a command, run from tix-8.4.3.5\win: nmake -f python.mak DEBUG=0 MACHINE=IX86 COMPILERFLAGS=-DWINVER=0x0500 TCL_DIR=..\..\tcl-8.5.15.0 TK_DIR=..\..\tk-8.5.15.0 INSTALL_DIR=..\..\tcltk all Use "install" instead of "all" after building to install it to ..\..\tcltk. Set DEBUG and MACHINE as needed; DEBUG does not need to be set if you're building Release, but MACHINE always has to be set so that Tix uses the right build dir for Tk (IX86 for 32-bit, AMD64 for 64-bit). -- Zach

Brian Curtin wrote:

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:

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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Zachary Ware wrote:

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I updated the 2.7 buildbot scripts to pull in Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 a couple of weeks ago (see http://bugs.python.org/issue21303), but hadn't gotten anything done with Tix yet. It should just need python.mak updated to point to Tcl/Tk 8.5.15; it's on my list to get fixed as soon as I can.

Tix for 2.7 is now http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.3.5. You can build it with this monster of a command, run from tix-8.4.3.5\win:

nmake -f python.mak DEBUG=0 MACHINE=IX86 COMPILERFLAGS=-DWINVER=0x0500 TCL_DIR=..\..\tcl-8.5.15.0 TK_DIR=..\..\tk-8.5.15.0 INSTALL_DIR=..\..\tcltk all

Use "install" instead of "all" after building to install it to ..\..\tcltk. Set DEBUG and MACHINE as needed; DEBUG does not need to be set if you're building Release, but MACHINE always has to be set so that Tix uses the right build dir for Tk (IX86 for 32-bit, AMD64 for 64-bit).

Awesome, thanks!

So I now have a fully working setup, at least for 32-bit, and have backported the Path option from 3.3 (http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a9d34685ec47). I ran into an issue with win32com getting a 64-bit installer built but didn't have time to look into it yet.

If the error is displayed immediately after the msm filename, it probably means you don't have that file. I had to pull the right ones out of our VS build directory, since I couldn't find a public version for SP1 (and apparently the QFE that updates the 32-bit MSM doesn't update the 64-bit one... guess I'll have to go look for that build now).

If anyone wants to try a 2.7 installer with that Path option, here's a copy: http://briancurtin.com/python-dev/python-2.7.msi (this is not signed, it'll warn you about that).

Looks good to me, and both of my builds worked fine. Cheers, Steve