[egenix-users] Windows debug build of mxDateTime

[Geoffrey Talvola]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Geoffrey Talvola wrote:
> > For various reasons I'd like to get my hands on a debug 
> build of mxDateTime
> > for Windows for Python 1.5.2.  I've downloaded the source 
> and successfully
> > compiled the regular release version, but I don't see any 
> obvious way to get
> > it to build a debug version (i.e. the mxDateTime_d.pyd that 
> can be used with
> > a python_d.exe debug build of Python).
> > 
> > Anyone know how to get this to happen?
> 
> python setup.py install --debug
> 
> should get you there, but you are on your own then... I only
> rarely build a debug version myself, so it's not clear whether
> that setup works or not (esp. because memory allocation is different
> in debug builds and I know of at least one bug which will be
> fixed in 2.1.0).

Thanks.  Actually, that didn't work (it didn't recognize the --debug
option), but

	python setup.py build --debug

did work and built the dlls I need.

- Geoff