[Python-Dev] Installing a newly-built python on windows

2017-04-16 Thread joao . moreira
Hi all, I've followed the instructions in the 1st chapter (Getting Started) of the Python Developers's Guide to compile python 3.6 from source, using VS 2017 on a Windows 7 SP1. I successfully built 35 of the 40 subprojects, and the python interpreter in cpython\PCbuild\amd64 is working fine

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing a newly-built python on windows

2017-04-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/16/2017 1:16 PM, joao.more...@free.fr wrote: Hi all, I've followed the instructions in the 1st chapter (Getting Started) of the Python Developers's Guide to compile python 3.6 from source, using VS 2017 on a Windows 7 SP1. I successfully built 35 of the 40 subprojects, and the python interp

Re: [Python-Dev] Installing a newly-built python on windows

2017-04-16 Thread Steve Dower
You'll want to look at tools/msi/build.bat and buildrelease.bat. The former should produce a test installer that should be isolated from a regular install (though it may not be perfect), while the latter is used for the official release. If you're going to use the latter and redistribute the r