Bev in TX wrote:
I am a complete newbie at building Python. I am trying to build it under MS Windows Vista (64-bit AMD) with MS VS2005. I'm doing that because I need debug libraries, which I did not see in the standard distribution.
I'll leave others to comment on whether or not it's expected to build with VS2005, but the easiest way to get a debug build is to pretend to be a buildbot. 1) Check out the python source into, say, c:\dev\python svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk c:\dev\python 2) Switch to that directory cd \dev\python 3) Pretend to be a buildbot tools\buildbot\build This will checkout all the necessary sources into, in my example, c:\dev. It will then run all the build steps necessary to get a debug build which will then be in c:\dev\python\pcbuild\python_d.exe TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
