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

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Mon Apr 24 14:13:44 CEST 2006

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Paul Moore wrote:

On 4/24/06, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe at gmail.com> wrote:

Martin v. Löwis:

Apparently, the status of this changed right now: it seems that the 2003 compiler is not available anymore; the page now says that it was replaced with the 2005 compiler.

Should we reconsider? [...] No. Martin means that http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ no longer points to a downloadable version of MSVC which includes the optimizer, and generates VC 7.1 compatible binaries. This means that unless you've already downloaded it, or it's acceptable for someone else to host it, there's once again no way to build Python with free tools :-( [...]

Actually, it's apparently still there, just at a different URL. Somebody posted the new URL on c.l.py a day or two back (Alex Martelli started the thread, IIRC). I'm off to the dentist, no time to Google for it!

John

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