[Python-Dev] Tix version needed to build 2.7 Windows installer?

[Brian Curtin]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Zachary Ware
<zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Zachary Ware
> <zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I updated the 2.7 buildbot scripts to pull in Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 a couple
>> of weeks ago (see http://bugs.python.org/issue21303), but hadn't
>> gotten anything done with Tix yet.  It should just need python.mak
>> updated to point to Tcl/Tk 8.5.15; it's on my list to get fixed as
>> soon as I can.
>
> Tix for 2.7 is now
> http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tix-8.4.3.5.  You can build it
> with this monster of a command, run from tix-8.4.3.5\win:
>
> nmake -f python.mak DEBUG=0 MACHINE=IX86 COMPILERFLAGS=-DWINVER=0x0500
> TCL_DIR=..\..\tcl-8.5.15.0 TK_DIR=..\..\tk-8.5.15.0
> INSTALL_DIR=..\..\tcltk all
>
> Use "install" instead of "all" after building to install it to
> ..\..\tcltk.  Set DEBUG and MACHINE as needed; DEBUG does not need to
> be set if you're building Release, but MACHINE always has to be set so
> that Tix uses the right build dir for Tk (IX86 for 32-bit, AMD64 for
> 64-bit).

Awesome, thanks!

So I now have a fully working setup, at least for 32-bit, and have
backported the Path option from 3.3
(http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a9d34685ec47). I ran into an issue
with win32com getting a 64-bit installer built but didn't have time to
look into it yet.

If anyone wants to try a 2.7 installer with that Path option, here's a
copy: http://briancurtin.com/python-dev/python-2.7.msi (this is not
signed, it'll warn you about that).