From: native-api Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:50:48 +0000 (+0300) Subject: bpo-31691: Specify where to find installer build instructions for Windows (#4427) X-Git-Tag: v3.6.4rc1~60 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c69611990365ae2f2efffd191de0aba9ee98d95c;p=python bpo-31691: Specify where to find installer build instructions for Windows (#4427) --- diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt index be8b2a4974..d4fd9a567c 100644 --- a/PCbuild/readme.txt +++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt @@ -32,8 +32,13 @@ Visual Studio Premium 2015 Required for building Release configuration builds that make use of Profile Guided Optimization (PGO), on either platform. -All you need to do to build is open the solution "pcbuild.sln" in Visual -Studio, select the desired combination of configuration and platform, +To build modules that depend on external libraries, you need to download +(and, for some of them, build) those first. It's thus recommended to build +from the command line once as specified below under "Getting External Sources" +as that does this automatically. + +Then, to continue development, you can open the solution "pcbuild.sln" in +Visual Studio, select the desired combination of configuration and platform, then build with "Build Solution". You can also build from the command line using the "build.bat" script in this directory; see below for details. The solution is configured to build the projects in the correct