[Python-Dev] Build failure and problem on Windows

[Thomas Heller]

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:

> Building the svn trunk on Windows fails because Python\pyarena.c is
> missing in the pythoncore.vcproj file (I'm not yet up to speed with svn,
> otherwise I would have checked in a fix for this myself).
>
> Worse, when running the built exe it segfaults in Py_GetBuildInfo(),
> because it is picking up somehow a definition of #define BUILD 'b' (from
> cPickle.c? Could that be?)

I should have known better, but BUILD is defined in the MSVC project
file as BUILD=60.

Thomas