[Python-Dev] ctypes is in SVN now.

[Thomas Heller]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
> 
>>> I discussed with Martin a bit about the opportunity of generating
>>> .vcproj files with a script-driven tool. I'm going to try and
>>> setup something as soon as I find some spare time.
>> Ideally this would be integrated with distutils because the
>> setup-script has most of the information that's needed.
>> 
>> OTOH, extensions could be built with distutils even for core
>> Python, and even on Windows.  For extensions that are *not* builtin
>> or not included with Python itself distutils works good enough.
> 
> I fear this is an orthogonal change. Alas, using distutils to build
> core extensions is not something I'm ready to tackle at the moment.
> 
> I was just thiking of something much more naive like using a free
> tool to build .vcproj/.sln (see www.cmake.org for instance) from a
> script description. With such a tool, it would be very easy to build
> a .pyd file around a self-contained .c file (like _heapqmodule.c,
> etc.), it would mostly be a couple of line changes in the script
> file, and then re-run the tool executable to regenerate vcproj/sln.
> OTOH, both the tool executable (cmake.exe in this example) and the
> current version of the generated vcproj/sln files would be committed
> in SVN under PCbuild, so to have a minimal impact on developer
> habits.

While I don't understand *why* you would want to do this (building
Python interpreters with a customized list of builtin modules could be
a reason for this, I've had thought about something like that for py2exe
a long time ago), I've clicked myself through the MSVC dialog and I'm happy
now because the two .vcproj files are ready.

I'll commit them and let others (Martin, probably) extend them for 64-bit
Windows versions ;-).

Thomas