[Distutils] [Python-Dev] Adventures with x64, VS7 and VS8 on Windows

[Jamie Kirkpatrick]

>
> I recommend that those people install the official binaries. Why do  
> you
> need to build the binaries from source, if all you want is to build
> extensions?


I've been following this discussion and it seems like an appropriate  
place to mention such a scenario which I have encountered myself and  
am still trying to work around:

I have a set of extensions that use SWIG to wrap my own C++ library.   
This library, on a day-to-day basis is built against VS8 since the  
rest of our product suite is.  Right now I have no way to work with  
this code using VS8 since the standard distribution is built against  
VS7 which uses a different CRT.   This is an absolute nightmare in  
practice since I currently have to maintain VS7 projects in parallel  
with the standard VS8 ones simply so that I can run and test my  
python code.

I've downloaded the Python source and had a look at building up my  
own distributions for each case (ideally there would be an easy way  
to separate out Release / Debug products as well as the VS8 / VS7  
variants, and I guess potentially for those cross-compiling we'd need  
to go a step further and do this per arch as well.  Anyway, this  
isn't how it works at the moment, but I'm still searching for a way  
to be able to work on the python code in VS8.  Building using the  
current projects I seem to get everything in the PCBuild8 / PCBuild  
dirs.  How can I work with what is build?

Is there a shell script to build a final distribution tree?  If not,  
is there a simple way to build an MSI similar to the one found on the  
Python.org site for the official releases but using the PCBuild8  
stuff?  If not how do you recommend getting myself to a state where I  
have at least a feature complete distribution build against VS8?  I'm  
happy with a one time build that I can just install into my source  
tree and upload to the SCM.

Thanks in advance, and I hope that my thoughts proved useful in some  
way.

Jamie
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