[Python-Dev] Build failure and problem on Windows

[Tim Peters]

[Thomas Heller]
>>> Building the svn trunk on Windows fails because Python\pyarena.c is
>>> missing in the pythoncore.vcproj file (I'm not yet up to speed with svn,
>>> otherwise I would have checked in a fix for this myself).
>>>
>>> Worse, when running the built exe it segfaults in Py_GetBuildInfo(),
>>> because it is picking up somehow a definition of #define BUILD 'b' (from
>>> cPickle.c? Could that be?)

[also Thomas Heller]
>> I should have known better, but BUILD is defined in the MSVC project
>> file as BUILD=60.

[Thomas Heller again]
> I've committed a fix for both (Hope these comments aren't off-topic
> nowadays for python-dev).

Not at all, according to me.  Nobody appears to be paying attention to
Python under VC 7.1 these days, but what you did here certainly helped
me when I got some time for it this weekend!  Thank you.