How to install Python package from source on Windows

[bartc]

On 17/05/2017 00:42, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/16/2017 05:01 PM, bartc wrote:

>> It should be a piece of cake, yes?
>
> If TCC implements the standard sufficiently, then yes it's possible.
> However it won't be easy because the Python build tools are geared
> towards the dominant compilers (GCC and VS), so you'd have to rework all
> the build batch files first.  Building an executable involves more than
> just compiling a C file. There is dependency calculation, optional
> compilation of features, linking, etc.

Thank you, this is what I suggested several hours ago, that I was picked 
up on:

"I can't test with Python because it's too complicated to compile, 
especially on Windows.

But if I use tcc to compile /my/..." (implying I'd rather have used tcc 
to compile CPython, if it had been trivial).

And actually my comments were also about building Python 'outside the 
box' if that makes sense. Just manually going through the tasks because 
there are certain to be issues that come up and I would need to know 
where I am.

Although it seems the information needed to do this is either in the 
18000 lines of configure script, or 7000 lines of VS project info, both 
incomprehensible, so I doubt I would get far.

Trial and error might work, and tcc seems capable of compiling a few 
sample modules I tried. But I don't have the inclination to battle all 
the obstacles when all I wanted was a ball-park figure of how much 
slower tcc would be than gcc at running CPython.

My much simpler test, on a similar application, suggested it might be 
half the speed at worst.

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bartc