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

Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Mon Apr 24 16:49:25 CEST 2006

On Apr 24, 2006, at 5:13 AM, John J Lee wrote:

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!

Yep, I was the one looking for that URL, and then at somebody else's
request reposted it and also tinyurled it (since it's a very long URL
it gives somebody problems).

For the Toolkit 2003: http://tinyurl.com/gv8wr

Also, for the Net SDK 1.1 (the 2.0 one apparently now is lacking the
msvcrt.lib for x86...): http://tinyurl.com/5flob

(original Url for the latter kindly supplied by Martin, btw).

Martin also suggested using mingw instead, on that same thread.

Alex

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