[Python-Dev] Windows build issues

[Guido van Rossum]

> A couple of things:
> 
> PCbuild/readme.txt
> 
>     Should be updated for the new release.

Tim will do this.

> PC/config.h 
> 
>     VC++ 5.0 will not compile python20 unless "#include
>     <basetsd.h>" is commented out.  Trent?

I'll leave this to Trent -- I don't know how to check for VC 5.0
vs. 6.0.

>     WITH_CYCLE_GC should be uncommented if we want to have GC
>     enabled in the beta.

Done.

> PCbuild/python20.dsp
> 
>     Line endings seem to be incorrect.  Someone probably edited
>     the file on a Unix machine and munched things up.  VC++ 5.0
>     likes DOS line endings otherwise it refuses to load the
>     project.

There was one missing CR.  Fixed now.

> Also, I get a few warnings when compiling.  One is about an /IZ
> (I think) option being ignored.  There are a few other warnings
> as well which I didn't write down.

Probably 6.0 flags that 5.0 doesn't have.  What can we do?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)