[Python-checkins] bpo-31691: Specify where to find installer build instructions for Windows (#4427)

Thu Nov 16 19:50:51 EST 2017

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c69611990365ae2f2efffd191de0aba9ee98d95c
commit: c69611990365ae2f2efffd191de0aba9ee98d95c
branch: 3.6
author: native-api <ivan_pozdeev at mail.ru>
committer: Steve Dower <steve.dower at microsoft.com>
date: 2017年11月16日T16:50:48-08:00
summary:
bpo-31691: Specify where to find installer build instructions for Windows (#4427)
files:
M PCbuild/readme.txt

diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index be8b2a4974c..d4fd9a567cc 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -32,8 +32,13 @@ Visual Studio Premium 2015
 Required for building Release configuration builds that make use of
 Profile Guided Optimization (PGO), on either platform.
 
-All you need to do to build is open the solution "pcbuild.sln" in Visual
-Studio, select the desired combination of configuration and platform,
+To build modules that depend on external libraries, you need to download
+(and, for some of them, build) those first. It's thus recommended to build
+from the command line once as specified below under "Getting External Sources"
+as that does this automatically.
+
+Then, to continue development, you can open the solution "pcbuild.sln" in
+Visual Studio, select the desired combination of configuration and platform,
 then build with "Build Solution". You can also build from the command
 line using the "build.bat" script in this directory; see below for
 details. The solution is configured to build the projects in the correct
