Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> added the comment: Those instructions in section 5.4 do seem wrong. On first reading they imply that you need to start with a clean source tree on your 32bit Windows, then build the 64bit version of Python. So far so good. However, then you need to run python.exe - which must be a 32bit version of Python or it wouldn't start.
So I *guess* the instructions really should say to build *both* the 32 and 64bit versions in the same source tree - in which case I can see why your patch would be necessary. Can you confirm the process you used? I assume you did build both versions in the same tree, but you also mentioned copying the .lib files around - was that an attempt to work around this bug? But yeah, sorry for the distraction - given 5.4 I think this bug is probably valid, but the patch should probably include updated instructions in 5.4 to make it more clear. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8170> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
