I managed to build a 64bit version of Python 2.7.5 from sources with VS2012 on Windows 8 following the wiki on modifying the build files as advised for VS2010. I ran the python regression tests on the build and it cleared most of the tests and skipped a few.
It hanged when trying to run the following tests, - test_tuple - test_list - test_userlist - test_asyncore - test_gdb The system would become unresponsive and I would need to force shutdown and restart. It failed the following tests, - test_socket [it failed only for two tests, test_connect & test_create_connection, the issue seems to be around this - AssertionError: 10061 != 107] - test_asynchat [all errors were with respect to Errno 10035 & WSAEWOULDBLOCK] - test_ssl [it skipped stating "DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application"] For the following I got warnings, - test_site [warning - modified sys.path] - test_distutils [warning - modified os.environ] I think test_socket and test_asynchat are to do with error codes returned as per errnomodule.c. Fixing this should be enough. I would really appreciate any help/advise on how to deal with the above errors. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
