[New-bugs-announce] [issue25850] Building extensions with MSVC 2015 Express fails

[Sami Salonen]

New submission from Sami Salonen:

MSVC 2015 Express doesn't include the 64-bit compiler [1], and this causes distutils to fail to load proper compiler settings when using a 64-bit machine to compile extensions for 64-bit python. _msvccompiler.py tries to call "vcvarsall.bat amd64", but the VC\bin\amd64 directory contains only one file "vcmeta.dll".

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9(v=vs.140).aspx

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components: Distutils, Extension Modules, Windows
messages: 256296
nosy: Sami Salonen, dstufft, eric.araujo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Building extensions with MSVC 2015 Express fails
versions: Python 3.5

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