[Python-Dev] 2.3.4 on Win64?

[Nick Bastin]

On Aug 11, 2004, at 2:20 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Nick Bastin wrote:
>> Has anybody built 2.3.4 on Win64, and if so, is there a preferred 
>> way?  We built it by exporting the makefiles and twiddling with the 
>> linker options and pointer size in pyconfig.h, but that seems a bit 
>> kludgy.
>
> I did (assuming you mean Itanium). I first tried it with that approach,
> then I talked Peter Tröger into developing vsextcomp, which is now used
> in the CVS. So unless you have a specific reason to use 2.3.4, I
> recommend to use 2.4.

I forgot to mention that the platform in question is AMD64, although we 
will be building on Itanium as well.  Using 2.4 is not an option at 
this point.

--
Nick