Compiling new Pythons on old Windows compilers

[Michael Torrie]

On 03/12/2017 09:26 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 03/12/2017 02:45 PM, eryk sun wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Eric Frederich
>> <eric.frederich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Any idea why compatibility was dropped recently?  There used to be a PC
>>> directory with different VS directories in the source tree, now it isn't
>>> there any more.
>>
>> CPython 3.5+ uses the Universal CRT on Windows, which is a system
>> component in Vista and later (a recommended update for Windows
>> versions prior to 10). See this blog post:
>>
>> http://stevedower.id.au/blog/building-for-python-3-5

Did I read that right that you can link python statically so you can use
the new universal runtime-based python to extend an app with another
runtime (but requiring administrator access somehow?)?