troubles building python 2.5 on Windows XP x64 Windows Server 2003 sp1 Platform SDK

I am needing to build python 2.5 on Windows XP x64 Windows Server 2003
sp1 Platform SDK and am not finding anything documented on the process
to use. Has anyone had any success with this? If so has anyone
documented it? The documentation that resides in pcbuild/readme.txt is
not helpful at all.

bhochstet...@gmail.com wrote:>
What have you tried already? From the readme:
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All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.sln" in MSVC++,
select the Debug or Release setting (using "Solution Configuration"
from the "Standard" toolbar"), and build the projects.
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Did that not work for you? If not, how did it fail?
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STeVe

On Apr 3, 2:04 pm, Steven Bethard <steven.beth...@gmail.comwrote:>
There is no IDE available with the 64 bit compiler on Windows Server
2003 Platform SDK, so that is not an option.

bhochstet...@gmail.com wrote:>>>>
Ahh, I see. Did you try this::
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Building for Itanium
--------------------
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The project files support a ReleaseItanium configuration which
creates Win64/Itanium binaries. For this to work, you need to
install the Platform SDK, in particular the 64-bit support. This
includes an Itanium compiler (future releases of the SDK likely
include an AMD64 compiler as well).
In addition, you need the Visual Studio plugin for external C
compilers, fromhttp://sf.net/projects/vsextcomp. The plugin will
wrap cl.exe, to locate the proper target compiler, and convert
compiler options accordingly. The project files require atleast
version 0.9.
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I can't tell whether vsextcomp handles your compiler or not though...
>
STeVe

This doc has not been updated since the 64 bit compilers came out
officially. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense of what steps you
should follow to build python. I saw a link on the comp.lang.python
that had the steps, but that link doesn't go anywhere now. I had to
jump through some hoops to get it to build on VC 2005 64 bit, but that
at least had an IDE to use.

I am needing to build python 2.5 on Windows XP x64 Windows Server 2003
sp1 Platform SDK and am not finding anything documented on the process
to use. Has anyone had any success with this?

If so has anyone
documented it? The documentation that resides in pcbuild/readme.txt is
not helpful at all.

This doc has not been updated since the 64 bit compilers came out
officially.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense of what steps you
should follow to build python. I saw a link on the comp.lang.python
that had the steps, but that link doesn't go anywhere now. I had to
jump through some hoops to get it to build on VC 2005 64 bit, but that
at least had an IDE to use

bhochstet...@gmail.com schrieb:
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I did - I built the official binaries with it.
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Did you try to follow it? If so, what precisely did you fail at?
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[in another message]
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That is not true. The documentation was last updated on 2006-07-14,
which is after an AMD-64SDKwas released.
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If you use vsextcomp, you also have an IDE to do the build. This
is indeed how the official AMD-64 binaries forPython2.5 were
produced.
>
Regards,
Martin

don't see an IDE for the vsextcomp. Do you know of any explicit
directions on how to do this build?