[pywin32-bugs] Building PyWin32 into Python as built-in

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Hello,

I need some assistance please regarding building PyWin32.  I hope that this
is the correct mailing list to ask this, but if not, please direct me to
the right place.  I'm wondering if it's possible to build PyWin32 into
Python as a built-in module?  I would like to do this with Python 2.7.13
64-bit for Windows.  I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and VS 2010
Service Pack 1 installed, and I have built Python from the source code with
"pcbuild.sln".  I found that most of the modules distributed with Python
can be made to be built-in by changing the module's project type to be
"Static library (.lib)" rather than a DLL project, adding
"Py_BUILD_CORE;Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED;" to the module project's preprocessor
directives, changing the project references so that the "pythoncore"
project refers to the module's project rather than the module's project
referring to "pythoncore", and adding corresponding lines for the module in
"PC\config.c" (in the "pythoncore" project).  (There are a few more
steps/hacks needed for some of the modules, but that is the basic
process.)  I can do this because the modules distributed with Python
("bz2", "_ctypes", etc.) are Visual Studio projects.  However, PyWin32 is
much different because it is built with Python Distutils and a "setup.py"
script, not a Visual Studio project/solution.  Usually, PyWin32 would be
built with the command "python setup.py {build|install}".  I have tried
playing with command-line options to no avail thus far.  I have also tried
including all of the .c, .cpp, .cxx, .h, etc. files from the PyWin32 source
directories into the "pythoncore" Visual Studio project, but this didn't
end up working.  I figure that I would need to do one of two things: either
(a) the PyWin32 modules need to be built as static library (.lib) files
rather than .pyd files somehow, and "pythoncore" needs to link to those
.lib files (like I did with the modules distributed with Python), or (b) I
need to include PyWin32's source files into the "pythoncore" project
somehow (and the way that I tried it was incorrect for some reason).

Can someone please provide guidance as to how I can properly build PyWin32
into Python as a built-in module?  Is there a quick way of doing this, or
would it take an entire overhaul of all of PyWin32's source code to
accomplish this?

Thank you!