windows ubuntu bash afdko 64bit build

For building the 64 bit Linux Python,
 use a 64 bit Linux VM system. 
Use the same steps as above, 
but the path to the 
AFDKOPythonBuild must be an absolute path.

Also, you must first get the build-essentials and readline packages,
 with the 
commands: 

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev # gets you the zlib.h file and zlib library.
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

You must also edit the Modules/Setup.dist file, 
BEFORE running ./configure,
 to enable the readlines library by removing the comment at the start of the line:

readline readline.c -lreadline -ltermcap # line 166 at the moment.

After building the Python interpreter, 
copy the file '/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.3.4'  
to Python/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload/.

Then cd there, and make a symbolic link named 'libz.so.1' to the libz.so.1.2.3. file.

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