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

[bhochstetler at gmail.com]

On Apr 3, 4:16 pm, Steven Bethard <steven.beth... at gmail.com> wrote:
> bhochstet... 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, fromhttp://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

This doc has not been updated since the 64 bit compilers came out
officially. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense of what steps you
should follow to build python. 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.