How to install Python package from source on Windows

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On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 5:09:34 PM UTC+1, bartc wrote:
> On 16/05/2017 08:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> >> Am 15.05.17 um 23:58 schrieb Chris Angelico:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> But I'm a little more mystified that official Python builds are leaning
> >>>> on Visual C++ (and that's what the crutch comment was primarily aimed
> >>>> at).
> >>>
> >>> You seem to be of the opinion that some day, binary executables will
> >>> be compiled using pure Python code. Maybe that's true; maybe it's not.
> >>
> >>
> >> More likely would be the option to ship a C compiler with Python written in
> >> C. For C++ this is way too big, but a pure C compiler can be as small as
> >> 1MB. tcc has a liberal license, supports many platforms and gives reasonable
> >> (unoptimized) code. AFAIK Mathworks does that, they ship tcc on Windows so
> >> that you can build .mex files without installing additional software, though
> >> they recommend to get a decent compiler for performance reasons
> >>
> >
> > To do that, Python would itself have to be compiled with tcc, or else
> > all memory de/allocation would have to be funneled through a
> > Python-provided API. And that's going to kill performance, I suspect.
> 
> I can't test with Python because it's too complicated to compile, 
> especially on Windows.
> 
> -- 
> bartc

What is the problem with the documentation given here https://docs.python.org/devguide ?

Specifically:-

"and on Windows use:

PCbuild\build.bat -e -d"

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.