On 25Aug2015 2153, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 8/25/2015 2:17 PM, Steve Dower wrote:
I've written up a long technical blog post about the compiler and CRT
changes in Python 3.5, which will be of interest to those who build and
distribute native extensions for Windows.
http://stevedower.id.au/blog/building-for-python-3-5/
Hopefully it puts some of the changes we've made into a context where
they don't just look like unnecessary pain. Feedback and discussion
welcome, either on these lists or on the post itself.
This is an excellent technical writeup. Can it be linked to from the
devguide, or maybe the C-API docs, if they do not contain everything in
the post?
I probably need to go through the "Building C and C++ Extensions on
Windows" chapter (https://docs.python.org/3.5/extending/windows.html)
and update it. Judging by the note near the top ("For example, if you
are using Python 2.2.1") it's a little out of date :)
Things I'd like to see on that page:
* setup.py example to build simple extensions
* command-line commands to build directly
* VS walkthrough for setting up a project (like what is there now)
* MinGW walkthrough for building extensions via distutils or directly
(I'll need some help with this one)
* deeper discussion on DLLs/static linking/distribution (like section
4.3 now, plus details from my post)
On the VS walkthrough, my team at work already has a strong interest
(and vague plans) to publish VS templates for building Python
extensions, which naturally come with docs and maybe a video walkthrough
(like https://youtu.be/D9RlT06a1EI, which I did for Python 3.4 without a
template).
If there's no opposition, it may be neater to link to that rather than
walking through VS in Python's docs - then this section would just cover
the command line invocations. I have no issues with linking to other
IDE's templates/walkthroughs, but I don't know of any that exist yet.
Cheers,
Steve
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