Installing Python 2.5.4 from Source under Windows

[Paul Franz]

Mark,
    The problem is that the steps are not in the readme.txt for the 
building Python for Windows.  The python.exe might work from the 
Win32Release directory where it is compiled. But I would like to have it 
create the distuils directory, and other python packages that are 
normally part of a python distribution. Another person pointed out 
Tools/Msi and I will look in that directory.

Paul Franz

Mark Hammond wrote:
> Paul Franz wrote:
>> I have looked and looked and looked. But I can not find any directions
>>
>> on how to install the version of Python build using Microsoft's 
>> compiler. It builds. I get the dlls and the exe's. But there is no 
>> documentation that says how to install what has been built. I have 
>> read every readme and stop by the IRC channel and there seems to be 
>> nothing.
>
> Although you asked about 'installing', you should find that the Python 
> you built works fine from where it is, and adding packages to your 
> site-packages directory will work as you expect.  With the addition of 
> an 'InstallPath' registry entry pointing at your directory, other .exe 
> installer packages created by distutils will also install correctly.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Mark
>