[Tkinter-discuss] Rebuilding tkinter using VC8

[Henry S. Thompson]

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Howard Lightstone writes:

> I am having some difficulties rebuilding tkinter using VC++ 
> 2005 (the only M$soft compiler you can buy now).
>
> I was able to get Python 2.5 to rebuild.  I had to get tcl/tk 
> 8.4.14 to be able to compile with VC8 (using the kind of 
> process specified in the python build documentation). 
>
> Tix, however, will not build using either 8.4.0 or 8.4.2.  It looks 
> like the VC8 makefile changes have never made it there.

Are you _sure_ that using gcc won't work for you?  After a lengthy,
complex and not completely successful attempt to use the (free)
Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit Compiler per the Python 2.4 Extensions w/
the MS Toolkit Compiler instructions [1], I switched to using the
Mingw/MSYS approach [2].  Works well for 2.4, should work for 2.5 as
far as I can see.

ht

[1] http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/
[2] http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/Python%20extensions
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