Hi all,
I got an MSI build working on my WinXP VM just now, and I wanted to
touch base with whomever it is that is maintaining this (wonderful!)
set of scripts...
I ran into three problems, and I managed to figure out two of them; the third
wasn't fatal. Note, the diff of my fixed checkout is attached.
First, the script that finds & builds the external dependencies has two
minor problems.
* it puts Tcl in tcl-8.*, and Tk in tk-8.*, but msi.py looks for them in
tcl8.* and tk8.* to grab the license text. I changed the glob strings
appropriately and that seemed to work.
* Tix isn't downloaded/installed/built automatically like everything else,
and msi.py looks for its license file, too. I just removed the
Tix reference. I can't figure out how to build Tix appropriately; any
tips?
Second, the buildmsi.bat file refers to python26a3.hhp instead of
python27a0.hhp.
Third, I could not get _tkinter to build properly, although it wasn't fatal
to the endeavor. It couldn't find ..\..\tcltk\lib\tcl85.lib, although
tcl85g.lib existed.
Oh, and there were a bunch of missing commands that (as a non-Windows xpert) I
had to figure out with google -- things like nasm/nasmw, for example. Are
these documented somewhere, or would it be helpful to document them? I think I
had to install:
- Microsoft HTML Help Compiler
- cygwin with make and python2.5 to build the docs
- nasm (and copy nasm.exe to nasmw.exe)
- cabarc
Errm, and the 'buildmsi.bat' file has 'build' misspelled as 'buold' ;)
I'd love to get this build process working completely automatically and
100% correctly, too.
Hat tip to Trent Nelson, who helped me figure out where the scripts are
and what other things I needed...
cheers,
--titus
--
C. Titus Brown, c...@msu.edu
Index: Tools/msi/msi.py
===================================================================
--- Tools/msi/msi.py (revision 76532)
+++ Tools/msi/msi.py (working copy)
@@ -875,9 +875,8 @@
for name, pat, file in (("bzip2","bzip2-*", "LICENSE"),
("Berkeley DB", "db-*", "LICENSE"),
("openssl", "openssl-*", "LICENSE"),
- ("Tcl", "tcl8*", "license.terms"),
- ("Tk", "tk8*", "license.terms"),
- ("Tix", "tix-*", "license.terms")):
+ ("Tcl", "tcl-8*", "license.terms"),
+ ("Tk", "tk-8*", "license.terms")):
out.write("\nThis copy of Python includes a copy of %s, which is licensed under the following terms:\n\n" % name)
dirs = glob.glob(srcdir+"/../"+pat)
if not dirs:
Index: Tools/buildbot/buildmsi.bat
===================================================================
--- Tools/buildbot/buildmsi.bat (revision 76532)
+++ Tools/buildbot/buildmsi.bat (working copy)
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
@rem build the documentation
bash.exe -c 'cd Doc;make PYTHON=python2.5 update htmlhelp'
-"%ProgramFiles%\HTML Help Workshop\hhc.exe" Doc\build\htmlhelp\python26a3.hhp
+"%ProgramFiles%\HTML Help Workshop\hhc.exe" Doc\build\htmlhelp\python27a0.hhp
@rem buold the MSI file
cd PC
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