Update PCbuild/readme.txt

It now recommends PCbuild/get_externals.bat instead of the scripts in
Tools/buildbot.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index 71fb0212d8..c078d42c25 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ bz2
 

     svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/bzip2-1.0.6

 

-    ** NOTE: if you use the Tools\buildbot\external(-amd64).bat approach for

+    ** NOTE: if you use the PCbuild\get_externals.bat approach for

     obtaining external sources then you don't need to manually get the source

     above via subversion. **

 

@@ -134,12 +134,12 @@ _ssl
 

     svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-1.0.2a

 

-    ** NOTE: if you use the Tools\buildbot\external(-amd64).bat approach for

+    ** NOTE: if you use the PCbuild\get_externals.bat approach for

     obtaining external sources then you don't need to manually get the source

     above via subversion. **

 

     The NASM assembler is required to build OpenSSL.  If you use the

-    Tools\buildbot\external(-amd64).bat method for getting sources, it also

+    PCbuild\get_externals.bat script to get external library sources, it also

     downloads a version of NASM, which the ssl build script will add to PATH.

     Otherwise, you can download the NASM installer from

         http://www.nasm.us/

@@ -174,36 +174,13 @@ _ssl
 

 The subprojects above wrap external projects Python doesn't control, and as

 such, a little more work is required in order to download the relevant source

-files for each project before they can be built.  The buildbots do this each

-time they're built, so the easiest approach is to run either external.bat or

-external-amd64.bat in the ..\Tools\buildbot directory from ..\, i.e.:

-

-    C:\..\svn.python.org\projects\python\trunk\PCbuild>cd ..

-    C:\..\svn.python.org\projects\python\trunk>Tools\buildbot\external.bat

-

-This extracts all the external subprojects from http://svn.python.org/external

-via Subversion (so you'll need an svn.exe on your PATH) and places them in

-..\externals (relative to this directory).  The external(-amd64).bat scripts

-will also build a debug build of Tcl/Tk; there aren't any equivalent batch files

-for building release versions of Tcl/Tk lying around in the Tools\buildbot

-directory.  If you need to build a release version of Tcl/Tk it isn't hard

-though, take a look at the relevant external(-amd64).bat file and find the

-two nmake lines, then call each one without the 'DEBUG=1' parameter, i.e.:

-

-The external-amd64.bat file contains this for tcl:

-    nmake -f makefile.vc COMPILERFLAGS=-DWINVER=0x0500 DEBUG=1 MACHINE=AMD64 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk64 clean all install

-

-So for a release build, you'd call it as:

-    nmake -f makefile.vc COMPILERFLAGS=-DWINVER=0x0500 MACHINE=AMD64 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk64 clean all install

-

-    XXX Should we compile with OPTS=threads?

-    XXX Our installer copies a lot of stuff out of the Tcl/Tk install

-    XXX directory.  Is all of that really needed for Python use of Tcl/Tk?

-

-This will be cleaned up in the future; ideally Tcl/Tk will be brought into our

-pcbuild.sln as custom .vcproj files, just as we've recently done with the

-_bsddb.vcproj and sqlite3.vcproj files, which will remove the need for

-Tcl/Tk to be built separately via a batch file.

+files for each project before they can be built.  The easiest way to do this

+is to use the `build.bat` script in this directory to build Python, and pass

+the '-e' switch to tell it to use get_externals.bat to fetch external sources

+and build Tcl/Tk and Tix.  To use get_externals.bat, you'll need to have

+Subversion installed and svn.exe on your PATH.  The script will fetch external

+library sources from http://svn.python.org/external and place them in

+..\externals (relative to this directory).

 

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