[New-bugs-announce] [issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Stephen Kelly]

New submission from Stephen Kelly:

The Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target. As far as I understand, the configure system used on Unix does have an install target.

That means that on Windows, binaries resulting from the build to not end up in the same layout as result from using the official installer. 

Third party modules expect the same layout. For example, Sip/PyQt requires it https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2017-April/039109.html . There are probably other modules similarly affected.

I don't know what else an install target should do, but I note its absence.

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components: Build
messages: 292872
nosy: steveire
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target
versions: Python 3.6

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