creating bzr-svn binaries on Windows

[Kevin Light]

----- "Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

> > Instead, I'm using
> > 
> >  * The SVN 1.4.6 win32 developers pack (building SVN on win32 is
> > renowned as being excessively painful).
> >  * Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 Toolkit (which was available
> "freebeer"
> > from MS at one time, contains an optimizing compiler but is only
> > available off-site of microsoft.com).
> >  * The SDK libs and includes that come with that.
> > 
> > In addition, Jelmer has had to remove some C99-isms from the code
> > (already in the history) ; MSVC 7.1 doesn't support them, and
> neither
> > does GCC 3.4 (which is the newest stable version of mingw gcc).
> > 
> > Further (!), I've had to make a lot of changes to setup.py because
> the
> > MS linker is a lot more picky and wants to know all the dependencies
> in
> > the hierarchy, not just the ones necessary for linking the top
> level.
> > I'm not sure if this is just config.
> > 
> > Of more concern is the fact that they just don't pass the tests. I
> > didn't have the time to do much more work, alas, but it certainly
> needs
> > doing.
> 
> Thanks for the information.  At this stage, I'm not sure how to get
> started
> building the extension modules - the first thing setup.py tries to do
> is to
> execute 'apr-config', then it uses *nix specific code to check the
> success
> or otherwise of that tool.
> 
> Is that step unnecessary?  I'm fairly familiar with MSVC and building
> python
> extensions, but not with the SVN API, so I'm not sure what is
> necessary on
> Windows and what isn't.  I'll experiment a little today and let you
> know if
> I have any success...

The installers at http://d5190871.u44.websitesource.net/bzr-svn/ are nothing more than the svn bindings compiled with VC 2003 so that they are compatible with Python 2.5 and can share the same dll's.  The bzr-svn that is included is just a copy of the source with the __init__.py modified to set the sys.path to find the svn bindings.  I never used the setup.py to build the releases.

I set out to build a newer version based on the newer bzr-svn code and svn-1.5 but hit the wall with apr issues.

Kevin