[Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Fri Apr 21 19:23:23 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

- Paul Moore has contributed a Python build procedure for the free version of the 2003 compiler. This one is without IDE, but still, it should allow people without a VS 2003 license to work on Python itself; it should also be possible to develop extensions with that compiler (although I haven't verified that distutils would pick that up correctly).

It's been possible to compile distutils extensions with the VS 2003 toolkit for far longer than it's possible to compile Python itself: http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/

In fact, it would be great if the patches provided here were reviewed and integrated into the official Python distutils.

Giovanni Bajo

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