[py-dev] Help compiling trunk on Windows XP

Maciek Fijalkowski fijal at genesilico.pl
Sun Oct 21 10:29:49 CEST 2007


Travis Oliphant wrote:
> I'm new to compiling Python itself on Windows XP.  Can anyone offer 
> advice on how to do it?
>
> Is it possible to build the Python trunk with Visual Studio 2005 Express 
> (the free version)?
>
> My real purpose is to be able to test patches that are available on 
> Windows so that they can be accepted.
>
> There is a patch for allowing mmap to accept the offset parameter that 
> is an important addition that I'd like to help get into Python 2.6 (and 
> Python 3.0).
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
> -Travis Oliphant
>
>
>   
Hi Travis.

This is pylib and py.test mailing list, not the python itself. Seek help 
here:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
I cannot really help you :-)

Cheers,
fijal



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