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

[Mark Kelley]

Thanks, that got me a bit further.  Now I'm wondering how I figure out
which version of tcl,tk and Tix actually got built with the 2.7.10
installer.  Tools\buildbot\external.bat conflicts with the versions
found in PC\build_tkinter.py, and the version in
PC\VS8.0\build_tkinter.py.

I am assuming the buildbot script is the one that's actually, used?  I
would submit a patch to clean some of this up, but sounds as though
it's in the pipeline.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Zachary Ware
<zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)