[Python-Dev] Windows SDK (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sat Dec 9 20:28:08 CET 2006

"Albert Strasheim" <fullung at gmail.com> wrote:

As part of the Windows Vista release, Microsoft have created the "Windows SDK" that looks like Platform SDK on steroids. It includes 32-bit and 64-bit libraries and compilers, debugging tools, etc. and supports Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.

Possibly not being able to run the compiler on Windows 2000 (or ME/98/95) in a "supported" mode may be a deal killer for people to not switch (and stick with the Platform SDK or Visual Studio 2003). I also wonder if the results of the compilations are usable on Windows 2000 (or ME/98/95).

I'm only guessing here, but I think the Windows SDK is probably going to become the de facto standard for building software on Windows in the absence of Visual Studio. Has anybody else looked at the Windows SDK yet? Any thoughts on what needs to be done with distutils so that the Windows SDK can be supported in Python 2.6?

Someone will have to add/update a visual studio project file equivalent in the PCBuild directory. I think it would be nice if the person who updates the PCBuild stuff also tried to find someone with other Windows platforms (64 bit, win2k, possibly the 95/98/ME family).

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