Visual Studio 6 compile of 2.5.2 fails with missing db.h

brucoder timj at tolisgroup.com
Mon May 5 16:47:39 EDT 2008


On May 5, 1:46 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> brucoder schrieb:
>
> > Any pointers?  A prerequisite that I might be missing?  The source is
> > the Python-2.5.2.tar.gz from the Python.org site.
>
> The tar.gz doesn't contain the dependencies like the bsddb files or
> sqlite3, bzip2 and more. You have to download and unpack the correct
> versions into the correct folder. Please read PCbuild/readme.txt

I had read that, but I misunderstood that not all components must be
built.  Since I don't need that functionality, I now see that I can
simply exclude it from my lib and exe builds.

Thanks,
Tim



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