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  r59866 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-09 04:02:23 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Syntax highlighting only works when >>> lines are accompanied by ... lines
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  r59867 | fred.drake | 2008-01-09 04:11:28 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  minor cleaning
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  r59868 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-09 04:13:20 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo
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  r59869 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-09 12:19:19 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Set the output file in the _ctypes Debug|x64 configuration.
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  r59870 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-09 13:27:41 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Related to patch #1114: fix another place where attr_t is assumed to be a long
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  r59873 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-09 15:46:10 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  vs9to8 sync
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  r59876 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-09 20:56:33 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed #1776. __import__() no longer imports modules by file name
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  r59879 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-09 22:35:04 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 6 lines

  Change amd64 buildbot scripts to use Visual Studio 2008, and
  to use the required versions of external sources.
  External sources are not yet built, so the build-step fails to
  built some targets.
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  r59880 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-09 22:35:43 +0100 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008) | 6 lines

  Change amd64 buildbot scripts to use Visual Studio 2008, and
  to use the required versions of external sources.
  External sources are not yet built, so the build-step fails to
  built some targets.
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Comments on building tcl/tk for AMD64 with the MS SDK compiler
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I did have to build tcl/tk manually.

First, I had to build the nmakehlp.exe helper utility manually by executing
   cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib
in both the tcl8.4.12\win and tk8.4.12\win directories.

Second, the AMD64 compiler refuses to compile the file
tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c because it insists on using intrinsics
for the 'ceil' and 'floor' functions:

  ..\generic\tclExecute.c(394) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant
  ..\generic\tclExecute.c(398) : error C2099: initializer is not a constant

I did comment out these lines; an alternative would have been to use
the /Oi- compiler flag to disable the intrinsic functions.
The commands then used were these:

   svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tcl8.4.12
   cd tcl8.4.12\win
   REM
   echo patch the tcl8.4.12\generic\tclExecute.c file
   pause 
   REM
   cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib
   nmake -f makefile.vc MACHINE=AMD64
   nmake -f makefile.vc INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install
   cd ..\..
   svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/tk8.4.12
   cd tk8.4.12\win
   cl nmakehlp.c /link bufferoverflowU.lib
   nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 MACHINE=AMD64
   nmake -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.12 INSTALLDIR=..\..\tcltk install
   cd ..\..