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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: My comment was addressed by other patches (by Zach, I believe). There now is an external directory for each version, within each pythonxy repository. I agree with closing this. Any documentation issues with the current build process should be a new issue.

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Carol Willing added the comment: Thank you kathweaver and others who worked on this issue. After reviewing the long history of this issue and the changes made to the Windows sections of the devguide, I am closing this issue. I recognize that Terry Reedy's final comment about isolated build di

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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Because the name 'tcltk' is unversioned and contents rebuilt for each compile, isolated build directories of the sort diagrammed in msg214138 are required if one want to build and run both 2.7, which requires tcl8.5, and 3.4+, which require tcl8.6. Since othe

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Zachary Ware added the comment: Issue #21907 changed how things are done somewhat, and has made PCbuild/build.bat the new obvious place to go for building Python from the command line; the devguide has been updated to reflect that (although I may have missed a place to update). What else stil

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Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 369891476cf8 by Zachary Ware in branch 'default': Issue #17846: Add a note about solution folders with VS Express. http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/369891476cf8 -- ___ Python tracker

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Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset bb3f1afcd082 by Zachary Ware in branch '3.4': Issue #17846: Clarify note about Solution Folders. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bb3f1afcd082 New changeset 39f9cd7ad19a by Zachary Ware in branch 'default': Issue #17846: Merge with 3.4 http://hg.pyt

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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since a debug build (F7 in VS) is the only thing I have ever built, or that a developer like me needs to build, that is not a limitation. -- ___ Python tracker ___

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: The limitation of build.bat (as you also reported) is that it builds a debug build. -- ___ Python tracker ___

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michael kearney added the comment: Observation: Tools\buildbot\build.bat solves all the problems I was having. That is to say, a single command exists to build python on windows w/o problems. It has worked since at least since python 3.3.1, which I think preceded my original submission.

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: New readme.txt patch -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34678/winreadme.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: Patch from comments on March 29 -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34677/win.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

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Zachary Ware added the comment: Devguide patch review, review comment lines start with # (in column 1) diff -r e665cddd6cde setup.rst --- a/setup.rst Sun Mar 23 19:31:22 2014 -0400 +++ b/setup.rst Tue Mar 25 07:47:54 2014 -0500 @@ -217,8 +217,9 @@ Windows ''' -The readme included in the

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Changes by Kathleen Weaver : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34615/winreadme.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

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Changes by Kathleen Weaver : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34614/winreadme.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: I've got a patch for the readme from cpyton and for the setup from devguide I have had trouble reading the comments. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34613/win.patch ___ Python tracker

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: No, Perl has not been mandatory for the build process, at least not for the last decade or so. It may occasionally happen that it is mandatory to build OpenSSL, but that would be a bug in our copy of OpenSSL. -- __

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Mark Lawrence added the comment: I simply do not understand the last comment, Perl has always been part of the build process on Windows. Are you saying that the build process has to change? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Please get perl out of this discussion. A perl installation shouldn't be necessary to compile Python. (IOW, -1 on any patch that recommends that Perl should be installed to build Python) -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python

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Zachary Ware added the comment: No, 3.4 uses VS 2010. Your patch changes the line from "hg update 3.4" to "hg update 3.3", which is not a legitimate change, in fact it undoes a change that Éric Araujo just made. With the release of 3.4.0, 3.4 became the current maintenance branch and 3.3 mov

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: Does this mean that Python 3.4 doesn't use VS 2010? hunks 1 & 2 (@@ -49,9 and @@ -216,7): Both changes should be reverted. The change from 3.4 -> 3.3 reverts a very recent change made due to 3.4 becoming the newest maintenance branch. If I'm not mistak

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: I agree -- so should that be a separate patch since it's in cpython, not devguide? Quoting: Frankly, I don't see much added benefit from the new file. It's mostly duplication of PCbuild/readme.txt, and what little isn't already there should be. I would much

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Zachary Ware added the comment: It will have to be a separate patch, but can be done in this issue. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyth

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Zachary Ware added the comment: Review of kw-issue17846.diff: setup.rst - hunks 1 & 2 (@@ -49,9 and @@ -216,7): Both changes should be reverted. The change from 3.4 -> 3.3 reverts a very recent change made due to 3.4 becoming the newest maintenance branch. If I'm not mistaken, the blank

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Zachary Ware added the comment: Whoops, that patch contains way more than you wanted :). I should have suggested "hg add *.rst". Attaching what should be the right patch, review to come. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34525/kw-issue17846.diff _

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Zachary Ware added the comment: Hmmm, it looks like your patch is missing a file. You may need to run "hg add", then create your patch again. -- ___ Python tracker ___

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: After hg add -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34524/windows.patch ___ Python tracker ___ _

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: I think I have everything now. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34523/windows.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

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R. David Murray added the comment: Because some of the third party components for the windows built are still in a subversion repository. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker ___

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: Why are you suggesting the use of Subversion? Why not stick with Mercurial? -- ___ Python tracker ___

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: I've gone through and followed the online directions. They do allow the person following the directions to "build Python". My question: I assume that isn't sufficient to really build a patch. The readme has directions that includes the information that is

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Kathleen Weaver added the comment: Since I am new to Python, I'll take a look at the documentation and see if I can help. -- nosy: +kathweaver ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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michael kearney added the comment: Thanks for the pointer to your work and discussion in issue16895. I was contemplating something along those lines. I had not started down that path first because I've only relatively recently thrashed the problem enough to understand the issues, and second becau

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Zachary Ware added the comment: Michael, you may be interested in a configure.bat/make.bat system which I have proposed in issue16895. I would certainly be interested in your review of it, as it seems that core developers who have the ability, inclination, and (probably most importantly) time

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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I have also had problems, and I think the devguide needs a chapter on the subject. I have additional info from Steve Dower of MS to add. There are also proposed rewrites of the .bat files to be factored it to any doc. Thank you for your writeup. -- co

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New submission from michael kearney: This is not a bug per se, though perhaps documentation rewrite might be appropriate. I've been building python for windows for several years now. I have found that it is unnecessarily problematic. Perhaps my expectations are too high. When I started buildi