Compiling Python 2.4 extensions with free VC++ Toolkit

[Jody Burns]

See Mike C. Fletcher's post and 
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ for a way to do it very 
easily (you have to be able to use the GNU patch tool, but that's not 
difficult at all).

--Jody

Peter Hansen wrote:

> 
> None, other than to note that if you and/or others were able to
> solve this and make it "easy" for those less VC++-savvy, you
> might significantly decrease the bar for those of us who have
> not been able to get into hacking on the core of Python because
> of being stuck in the MS world yet not willing to shell out more
> cash to billg...  maybe, just maybe, that would get a few more
> people out there reviewing patches and maybe fixing bugs.
> 
> -Peter