Windows non-MS compiler doc updates

[mikejbrown]

BPO	839709
Nosy	@freddrake

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title = 'Windows non-MS compiler doc updates'
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[mikejbrown]

Documents affected:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.2/inst/tweak-flags.html
sec. 6.2.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.1/inst/tweak-flags.html
sec. 6.2.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/inst/tweak-flags.html
sec. 6.2.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/inst/non-ms-
compilers.html sec. 3.1.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.2/inst/non-ms-
compilers.html sec. 3.1.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/inst/non-ms-
compilers.html sec. 3.1.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2/inst/non-ms-
compilers.html sec. 3.1.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.1.3/inst/non-ms-
compilers.html sec. 3.1.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.1.2/inst/non-ms-
compilers.html sec. 3.1.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.1.1/inst/non-ms-
compilers.html sec. 3.1.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.1/inst/tweak-flags.html
sec. 3.1.2

1. Filenames in the examples are way out of date. It is
   also not clear to the reader that python23.dll is located
   in %SystemRoot%\System32. I suggest that you change
   the pexports command line example to

pexports \Windows\System32\python23.dll >
python23.def

In the Python 2.2 docs, use python22.dll and
python22.def. In the Python 2.1 docs, use python21.dll
and python21.def.

2. It's not clear to the reader where dlltool is. dlltool can
   also output directly to the right directory. I suggest that
   you change the dlltool command line example to

\cygwin\bin\dlltool --dllname python23.dll --def
python23.def --output-lib \Python23\Libs\libpython23.a

In the Python 2.2 docs, use python22.dll, python22.def,
and libpython22.a. In the Python 2.1 docs, use
python21.dll, python21.def and libpython21.a.

3. Another filename out of date. I suggest that you
   change "The resulting library has to be placed in the
   same directory as python20.lib." to "The resulting library
   has to be placed in the same directory as python23.lib."

In the Python 2.2 docs, use python22.lib. In the Python
2.1 docs, use python21.lib.

[freddrake]

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--sigh--

I guess I've not had a lot of time for the past few years. :-(

Luckily, most of this has already been handled for newer
releases. I've made updates based on 1 and 2 for the Python
2.5 documentation (revision 45738).