[Python-Dev] MSDN subscribers: Using Visual Studio? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Oct 29 12:57:49 CET 2009

Steve Holden <holdenweb gmail.com> writes:

I just wondered, with the recent flood of new MSDN subscriptions loosed on the developer community, how many people have installed the required version of Visual Studio and built Python for Windows from source? Not being that familiar with the process myself I was hoping for some advice from the inexperienced who have overcome any hurdles there might be. I have a pristine virtual machine just waiting for the right pieces ...

If it's just a matter of building and testing it you don't need any MSDN subscription, you just need Visual Studio Express which is free (as in free beer...). I don't know if it allows you to build an installer though.

I won't reply to the other part of the message since I haven't asked for (nor received) any MSDN subscription :)

Regards

Antoine.

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