Re: Survey: Python on Alpha AXP Windows NT

Sam Rushing (rushing@squirl.oau.org)
31 Aug 1994 21:36:02 GMT

In article <Patrick.Keogh.1.0011668A@cao.mts.dec.com>, Patrick.Keogh@cao.mts.dec.com (Patrick Keogh) says:
>
>I am about to start work on porting Python to the AXP platform, so
>I thought I'd first of all make sure my effort wasn't wasted.
>Has anybody started/completed this effort?

I have a zipfile containing makefiles and scripts that worked for
1.0.2, they'll probably work for 1.0.3. You should be able to find
these at
ftp.ksc.nasa.gov:[pub.win3.private.proto]python-make.zip

Mark Hammond (MHammond@cmutual.com.au) has made some excellent
progress on an MFC/Win32 version of python. There's a very nice
interactive environment, much of it written in Python.

Theoretically, this should compile on the Alpha, but the development
environment Mark is using (MSVC++ for NT) is different enough from
the one shipped with the beta SDK to be irritating. I have spent
only an hour or so trying to reconcile the differences with Makefiles,
etc but haven't made much progress.

Hopefully the new compiler products and new MFC will make these
problems go away.

But definitely you want to contact Mark, and take a look at his
sources, available in the ./nt directory of your favorite archive
site (which I might assume to be gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/plan/python/nt)

-Sam