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

[Steven Bethard]

bhochstetler at gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2:04 pm, Steven Bethard <steven.beth... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> bhochstet... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> What have you tried already?  From the readme:
>>
>>      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.
> 
> There is no IDE available with the 64 bit compiler on Windows Server
> 2003 Platform SDK, so that is not an option.

Ahh, I see.  Did you try this::

     Building for Itanium
     --------------------

     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, from http://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.

I can't tell whether vsextcomp handles your compiler or not though...

STeVe