[Python-Dev] Building python 2.7.10 for Windows from source

[Zachary Ware]

On Jul 24, 2015 8:30 AM, "Mark Kelley" <keeely3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been using Python for some time but it's been a decade since
> I've tried to build it from source, back in the 2.4 days.  Things seem
> to have gotten a little more complicated now.
>
> I've read through the PCBuild/README file and got most stuff
> compiling.  I find it a little odd that there are special instructions
> for the building the release version of tcl/tk.  Is that what the
> developers actually do when they cut a release, or is there some
> other, top-level script that does this automatically? It just seems
> odd.

That used to be standard procedure, yes. However, I just recently
backported the project files from 3.5, which include project files for
building Tcl/Tk and Tix, in both Debug and Release configurations, so I may
have missed some stuff that could be removed from PCbuild/readme.txt. You
do need some extra stuff to build 2.7 with its new project files, though
(which i know is now covered in readme.txt). There hasn't been a release
with those project files yet though, they're just in the hg repo.

> Anyhow, my specific question is around the distutils wininst stubs,
> provided as binaries in the release tarball.  Where can I find the
> source files that those binaries are built from?

I believe the source for those is in PC/bdist_wininst/, or some very
similar path.

Hope this helps,
--
Zach
(On a phone)
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