Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:39 AM, James Jong <ribonucleico at gmail.com> wrote:
> I managed to compile sqlite with:
>
> CPPFLAGS='-I/path_to_sqlite-3.7.16.2/include -I/path_to_tk8.6.0/include'
>
> DFLAGS='-L/path_to_sqlite-3.7.16.2/lib -L/path_to_tk8.6.0/lib/'
>
> ./configure --prefix=/path_to_python-2.7.4 --enable-shared
>
> However, _tkinter is still failing. I don't know what else to try. Any
> thoughts?

Can you build Python on a different system (to which you have admin
rights), then deploy the binary to the one where you don't? Then you
could do a much more standard compilation process. As long as the two
systems are broadly similar, it should work.

ChrisA