On 14/05/2015 17:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:51 AM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
OK, the answer seems to be No then - you can't just trivially compile the C
modules that comprise the sources with the nearest compiler to hand. So much
for C's famous portability!
(Actually, I think you already lost me on your first line.)
If you want to just quickly play around with CPython's sources, I
would strongly recommend getting yourself a Linux box. Either spin up
some actual hardware with actual Linux, or grab a virtualization
engine like VMWare, VirtualBox, etc, etc, and installing into a VM.
With a Debian-based Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc), you should
simply be able to:
sudo apt-get build-dep python3
Actually I had VirtualBox with Ubuntu, but I don't know my way around
Linux and preferred doing things under Windows (and with all my own tools).
But it's now building under Ubuntu.
(Well, I'm not sure what it's doing exactly; the instructions said type
make, then make test, then make install, and it's still doing make test.
I hope there's a quicker way of re-building an executable after a minor
source file change, otherwise doing any sort of development is going to
be impractical.)
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