The distributed Makefile is vc40.mak. This file is distributed with

CRLF line separators, otherwise Developer Studio won't like it. It

will NOT work from this PC directory. To use it, first copy it to the

Python distribution directory, e.g. with this command:

copy vc40.mak ..

To convert the Makefile into a project file, start Developer Studio,

choose Open Workspace, change the file name pattern to *.mak, find and

select the file vc40.mak, and click OK. Developer Studio will create

additional project files vc40.ncb and vc40.mdp when you use the

project. The project contains three targets, which should be built in

this order:

python14 The Python core as a DLL, named python14.dll.

python The Python main program, named python.exe. This should

work as a console program under Windows 95 or NT, as well

as under Windows 3.1(1) when using win32s. It uses

python14.dll.

_tkinter The optional _tkinter extension, _tkinter.dll; see below.

ALl end products of the compilation are placed in the subdirectory

vc40 (which Developer Studio creates); object files are placed in

vc40/tmp. There are no separate Release and Debug project variants.

Note that the python and _tkinter projects require that the

python14.lib file exists in the vc40 subdirectory before they can be

built.

*** How to build the _tkinter extension ***

This assumes that you have installed the Tcl/Tk binary distribution

for Windows 95/NT with version numbers 7.5p1/4.1p1, in the default

installation location (C:\tcl). (Ftp to ftp.sunlabs.com in /pub/tcl,

file win41p1.exe.) You must also have fetched and unpacked the zip

file vclibs41.zip which contains the files tcl75.lib and tk41.lib, and

placed those files in C:\tcl\bin. In order to use _tkinter, the

Tkinter.py module must be on PYTHONPATH. It is found in the

Lib\tkinter subdirectory.