Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

[Ed Keith]

I downloaded the ISO, but it seems to be just a bit too big to fit on a CD!

This seems odd to me, has anyone else had this problem?

      -EdK

Ed Keith
e_d_k at yahoo.com

Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com


--- On Tue, 7/6/10, sturlamolden <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> wrote:

> From: sturlamolden <sturlamolden at yahoo.no>
> Subject: Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 11:50 AM
> 
> Just a little reminder:
> 
> Microsoft has withdrawn VS2008 in favor of VS2010. The
> express version
> is also unavailable for download. >:((
> 
> We can still get a VC++ 2008 compiler required to build
> extensions for
> the official Python 2.6 and 2.7 binary installers here
> (Windows 7 SDK
> for .NET 3.5 SP1):
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=71DEB800-C591-4F97-A900-BEA146E4FAE1&displaylang=en
> 
> Download today, before it goes away!
> 
> Microsoft has now published a download for Windows 7 SDK
> for .NET 4.
> It has the VC++ 2010 compiler. It can be a matter of days
> before the VC
> ++ 2008 compiler is totally unavailable.
> 
> It is possible to build C and Fortran extensions for
> official Python
> 2.6/2.7 binaries on x86 using mingw. AFAIK, Microsoft's
> compiler is
> required for C++ or amd64 though. (Intel's compiler
> requires VS2008,
> which has now perished.)
> 
> Remember Python on Windows will still require VS2008 for a
> long time.
> Just take a look at the recent Python 3 loath threads.
> 
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