How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 06:05 am, breamoreboy at gmail.com wrote:

 
> <quote>
> What is the problem with the documentation given here
> https://docs.python.org/devguide ?
> 
> Specifically:-
> 
> "and on Windows use:
> 
> PCbuild\build.bat -e -d"
> </quote>
> 
> That is 24 key strokes, including ENTER, to do the build on Windows.  What
> is so difficult about this?

Well, for starters, I don't have Windows, so I can't use it!

*wink*

Thanks Mark for pointing this out. Twice.

Hey Bart, if you're reading this, how about answering the question: what is
so hard for Windows users about running the build.bat script that is
prepared for you?

Does it not work? If not, that's a bug.

Does it have undocumented dependencies? That's a bug.

Does it have documented but unreasonable dependencies? Well, that depends on
what is "reasonable", but that might be a good reason for a feature
request.

E.g. "support the Tiny-C compiler" might be a reasonable feature request, if
Tiny-C supports all the features used by Python.

"Don't require any C compiler at all" would be unreasonable.




-- 
Steve
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