[Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free

[Alex Martelli]

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