again re 1.6b1 on Windows

[Tom]

I built the 1.6b1 sources for windows to, with the same results.  No point
in everyone who wants to try b1 on windows going through the same thing
(particularly as VC isn't free), so I put the results on the web with a
brief explanation.

http://www.malcolmson.com/python/

I should note, though, that I was too lazy to build the (optional) _tkinter,
bsddb, pyexpat, zlib modules - the ones that require other packages.

As for setup, I did the following with the files I built:
- the .exe files I stuck in ...Python16.
- the .dll goes in your system folder (eg. WinNT/System32).
- the .pyd files (c modules) I stuck in ...Python16\DLLs.

And the registry stuff is optional I believe.

Does this help?

Tom.

"Alex Martelli" <alex at magenta.com> wrote in message
news:8mk8um01tvk at news1.newsguy.com...
> As per my previous message -- as 1.6b1 seems to be released
> only in source form (no Windows installer), I got it and built it
> on Windows (with VC++6 SP4).  It built fine (as far as I could
> see) and I already reported on the issue with installing (found no
> way to install automatically -- maybe I just haven't been looking
> in the right places?) and testing.
>
> Now I turned to examine each sub-project.  Some I had
> disabled, as specified in the instructions, as they needed
> other stuff to be gotten separately -- tkinter, zlib, and
> bsddb.
>
> It appears that pyexpat is also in that category -- it won't
> build unless you feed it a header file and a couple libs (the
> expat core itself, I guess?).  No problem, as it happens I
> had them lying around (as part of my Perl site\lib, which I
> have not uninstalled yet), and pyexpat built fine with those.
>
> I guess this is a bug of some sort but I'm not sure how to
> categorize it.  Build/Platform-dependent I guess; but I dunno
> if it's just something that should be documented, just as for
> the other modules needing external files, or rather it's a bug
> that those files are missing.  Oh well, not a biggie.
>
> zlib built fine, anyway, although it expects the .lib file in a
> place I'd never have guessed (and it seems to want the
> static one rather than the DLL one? funny...).
>
> Still, now I'm going to try and test pyexpat and zlib, and
> we'll see.  Then bsddb, finally tkinter.  I still do wonder
> about how to install it all -- I can gather from the 1.5.2 I
> still have roughly where things do go, but manual edits of
> the registry don't seem a nice thing to do.  We'll see...
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>