[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-225003 ] Extension manual: Windows extension info needs update

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Bugs item #225003, was opened at 2000-12-08 07:38
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 4
Submitted By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: Extension manual: Windows extension info needs update

Initial Comment:
The section on building extensions on Windows needs to be updated.  A single section, shared for Unix & Windows, needs to point out the distutils approach and point to the appropriate manual.

Information about linking, DLLs/shared libraries, and use of C++ needs to be reviewed and updated.

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Comment By: Alex Martelli (aleax)
Date: 2001-08-17 00:52

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Yes, I fully agree -- the information in the manual at 
http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/ext/win-
cookbook.html is positively wrong, and one of the major 
causes of help requests in my experience -- people look for 
inexistent http://starship.python.net/crew/da/compile/, 
download the sources to get a pyconfig.h they don't need 
and look for a PC\pyconfig.h that doesn't exist, and get 
tied into knots writing a Setup file.  Seems a very serious 
situation to me.

While we wait to do it 'just right', couldn't at least the 
present erroneous text be replaced with some temporary 
pointer e.g. to some of the various posts on the subject 
(cfr http://groups.google.com/groups?
as_q=setup.py&as_uauthors=alex%20martelli for many 
examples, or my apparently popular recipe at 
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/6650
9, or...?) -- I'll be happy to write/rewrite this stuff 
with whatever mods you require, Fred, except that I can't 
seem to use the 'official' way to write Python docs (LaTex 
etc etc -- I thought a Linux box would make it easy but i'm 
still having problems setting it up, sigh).

Let me know if I can be of help in any way, but I think 
that, particularly now with the nice new material in 
chapter 2, it's a positive ill to leave chapter 4 as it is 
now...:-(


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