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

[bhochstetler at gmail.com]

On Apr 4, 5:04 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> bhochstet... at gmail.com schrieb:
>
> > I am needing to buildpython2.5 on Windows XP x64 Windows Server 2003
> > sp1PlatformSDKand am not finding anything documented on the process
> > to use. Has anyone had any success with this?
>
> I did - I built the official binaries with it.
>
> > If so has anyone
> > documented it? The documentation that resides in pcbuild/readme.txt is
> > not helpful at all.
>
> Did you try to follow it? If so, what precisely did you fail at?
>
> [in another message]
>
> > This doc has not been updated since the 64 bit compilers came out
> > officially.
>
> That is not true. The documentation was last updated on 2006-07-14,
> which is after an AMD-64SDKwas released.
>
> > It doesn't make a whole lot of sense of what steps you
> > should follow to buildpython. 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
>
> 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

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