[Python-Dev] VS 2010 compiler (original) (raw)

Chris Barker - NOAA Federal chris.barker at noaa.gov
Sat Sep 26 00:27:22 CEST 2015

You can use "Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4".

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279

Thanks. Last time I tried that route, it was for 64 bit py2.7. And it required some kludging of environment variables, and registry acces I don't have permission for.

But it still may be the best bet. I'll give it a try when I have a chance.

And this should be in the "official" docs...

-CHB

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

As I understand it, the MS VS2010 compiler is required (or at least best practice) for compiling Python extensions for the python.org Windows builds of py 3.4 and ?[1]

However, MS now makes it very hard (impossible?) to download VS2010 Express ( or Community, or whatever the free as in beer version is called). I realize that this is not python-dev's responsibility, but if there is any way to either document where it can be found, or put a bit of pressure on MS to make it available, as they have for VS2008 and py2.7, that would be great. Sorry to bug this list, I didn't know where else to reach out to. -Chris [1] it's actually prefer hard to find out which compiler version is used for which python version. And has been for years. Would a patch to the docs, probably here: https://docs.python.org/3.4/using/windows.html#compiling-python-on-windows Be considered?

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