Missing _init_types in MS VisualStudio 2005 (PCBuild8)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Donovan Kolbly schrieb:
> I was trying to build Python using MS VisualStudio 2005 (VC++ 8.0)
> according to the instructions in PCBuild8/ and got a link error
> in config.obj referencing _init_types.

That's a known bug, and has been fixed in the subversion repository
since.

> I (barely) know enough about VS 2005 to add files to the project, so I
> added Modules/_typesmodule.c to the pythoncore subproject, and that
> seemed to fix it -- I can now build the python executable.

That's the correct fix, indeed.

Regards,
Martin