[Python-Dev] Compile Python on Windows (OpenSSL)

[Victor Stinner]

Hi,

I installed the SP1 for Visual Studio 2010, and it looks like that it
broke my Windows SDK 7.1 (setenv was missing, cl.exe was also
missing). I uninstalled the SDK 7.1, and then I saw that a patch is
required to use Windows SDK 7.1 with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Ah. Too
late.

I don't understand the link between the SDK and Visual Studio. There
are not separated directories?

And now I cannot find Windows SDK 7.1 anymore. It looks like it
disappeared from microsoft.com. The SDK 7.1 was released in 2010, so
it's now quite old, but it worked well!

Can I use the SDK 8.0 or 8.1 to build Python extensions for Python 3.3 and 3.4?

It took me several hours to have a working platform to build my Python
extensions for Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4, in 32 and 64 bits with
automated scripts to run all commands. And now it doesn't work anymore
:-(

Victor

2015-01-13 23:46 GMT+01:00 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
> On 13.01.2015 23:42, Brian Curtin wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Victor Stinner
>> <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2015-01-13 23:18 GMT+01:00 Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com>:
>>>> Technically, Python 3.5 requires Visual Studio 2015
>>>
>>> For me, it's *very* difficult to find how to install Visual Studio.
>>> There are many different websites and web pages which mention Visual
>>> Studio with a lot of versions and "flavors" (Express, Community,
>>> Ultimate, etc.).
>>>
>>> Visual Studio 2015 was not released yet :-/
>>>
>>> My VM has only a disk of 40 GB. Only 12 GB are free. I already have VS
>>> 2008 Express and VS 2010 Express installed. I understood that
>>> "Ultimate" includes a *lot* of things, not only a C compiler.
>>>
>>> I found a "free" Visual Studio which is in fact Visual Studio 2013
>>> Community and I read that it's not free.
>>>
>>> I sent an email to Brian Curtin to ask to renew my MSDN account. He
>>> didn't reply yet.
>>
>> I saw that and will send it on, but it's still going to take some time
>> to process - usually a week or so.
>>
>> In the meantime, the first result searching for Visual Studio 2015
>> came up with http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-downloads-vs.aspx,
>> which seems to give you VS2015. I haven't tried to run it since I'm
>> not on Windows at the moment, but it looks correct.
>
> Just a note of caution: for older preview releases of VS the
> only way to get back to a clean system was to reinstall
> Windows.
>
> I don't know whether this will be different with VS 2015,
> but if you care for your VM, you should probably create
> a snapshot before installing VS 2015 preview to make it
> easy to revert back, e.g. to install the final VS 2015
> version.
>
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> Marc-Andre Lemburg
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