Python on win64

[Trent Mick]

[Mauro Cicognini wrote]
> I'm asking 'cause we recently got an Itanium machine with Windows Server 
> 2003 on it and started looking on how to port some of our stuff to it. 
> However, since there's no MS IDE for win64, the only way to build Python 
> would be to use the SDK, but that needs makefiles and those would need 
> to be exported from the MSVC project files, with no guarantee of success.

That is what I do: use the SDK to cross-build for Win64 on Win32 using
exported makefile from the MSVC .dsp files. For Python 2.2 at least I
found that everything but the _tkinter and winsound extensions worked
find.


Trent

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