Ashley Whetter added the comment:
Ah you're right. I was trying to install in the same way as previous versions.
I didn't realise that calling prepare_*.bat was a separate step now.
Sorry about that.
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Steve Dower added the comment:
The intent is that you'd build from source and then copy the binaries into the
libffi directory (the *real* intent is that very few people should have to
build libffi from source).
Can you tell us a bit more about what you were trying to achieve when you ran
i
New submission from Ashley Whetter :
get_externals.bat downloads and extracts libffi to a versioned directory (much
like the other external libraries). See
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.8.0/PCbuild/get_externals.bat#L55
However the binary release is downloaded to an unversioned dir
