[New-bugs-announce] [issue43298] Windows build issue

[Kevin Thomas]

New submission from Kevin Thomas <kevin at mytechnotalent.com>:

When compiling for Windows it does not properly handle the version string MSB4184

C:\Users\kevin\cpython>PCbuild\build.bat
Using py -3.7 (found 3.7 with py.exe)
Fetching external libraries...
bzip2-1.0.6 already exists, skipping.
sqlite-3.34.0.0 already exists, skipping.
xz-5.2.2 already exists, skipping.
zlib-1.2.11 already exists, skipping.
Fetching external binaries...
libffi already exists, skipping.
openssl-bin-1.1.1i already exists, skipping.
tcltk-8.6.10.0 already exists, skipping.
Finished.
Using "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\msbuild.exe" (found in the Visual Studio installation)

C:\Users\kevin\cpython>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Current\Bin\msbuild.exe" "C:\Users\kevin\cpython\PCbuild\pcbuild.proj" /t:Build /m /nologo /v:m /clp:summary /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64 /p:IncludeExternals=true /p:IncludeCTypes=true /p:IncludeSSL=true /p:IncludeTkinter=true /p:UseTestMarker= /p:GIT="C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe"
C:\Users\kevin\cpython\PCbuild\python.props(111,31): error MSB4184: The expression "[System.Version]::Parse('')" cannot
 be evaluated. Version string portion was too short or too long. [C:\Users\kevin\cpython\PCbuild\pythoncore.vcxproj]

Build FAILED.

C:\Users\kevin\cpython\PCbuild\python.props(111,31): error MSB4184: The expression "[System.Version]::Parse('')" cannot
 be evaluated. Version string portion was too short or too long. [C:\Users\kevin\cpython\PCbuild\pythoncore.vcxproj]
    0 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.06

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messages: 387518
nosy: mytechnotalent
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Windows build issue
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.10

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