Re: Building under Visual Studio 2005 for Devices

Michael Foord <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.windows-ce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christopher Fairbairn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am keen to start contributing to the Windows CE/Windows Mobile port of Python. I 
> have a lot of commerical development experience in this environment.
>
> I would like to understand the build process for Python in a lot more detail than I 
> currently do. I thought an ideal way to do this would be to have a goal of making 
> PythonCE compilable under Visual Studio 2005.
>
> Is anyone able to give me any starting tips on how I might approch this? Should I 
> look at modifying the SCONS scripts to be able to detect and make use of Visual 
> Studio 2005 instead of EVC, or should I go the route used by the PCBuild and 
> PCBuild8 directories (i.e. desktop versions) where (I assume) someone has manually 
> created a bunch of suitable project and solution files?
>
>   
PythonCE is a port of the standard CPython project.

As it happens there is thread going on *right now* on the Python-dev 
mailing list on what it takes to make CPython compilable with VS 2005.

The same techniques would have to be applied to the PythonCE project 
which is essentially just a patched version of vanilla CPython.

Worth browsing the Python-dev mailing archives for this month...

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml


> Thanks.
> Christopher Fairbairn
>
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