[issue34442] zlib module not built on windows

Zachary Ware added the comment: With no further explanation of what went wrong, I'm closing the issue. -- resolution: -> works for me stage: test needed -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue34442] zlib module not built on windows

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: What precisely does 'running' mean, so that we can try to reproduce? python -m test.test_zipfile Runs 208/207 tests in about a minute on the repository debug builds without failure for both 3.8 and 3.7. -- nosy: +terry.reedy

[issue34442] zlib module not built on windows

Zachary Ware added the comment: Hi Stephen, zlib is built into the core binary (pythonXY.dll) when you build with `IncludeExternals`; see PCbuild/pythoncore.vcxproj. Using PCbuild/build.bat should do that automatically (unless you tell it not to), but if it's not we may need to fix

[issue34442] zlib module not built on windows

New submission from Stephen Kelly : I tried to build python 3.7.0 from source. I ran the PCBuild/build.bat script. That downloaded zlib to the external/ directory. However, it does not seem to be built. When running I get: python\3.7.0\lib\zipfile.py", line 646, in _check_compression