We're very close to having some good news, but unfortunately, that's all I can say right now. Expect a more significant email/announcement from me in the next couple of weeks. (Distutils will hear it first and get the most detailed info.)
Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Paul Moore<mailto:p.f.mo...@gmail.com> Sent: 9/23/2014 15:42 To: Distutils<mailto:distutils-sig@python.org>; Steve Dower<mailto:steve.do...@microsoft.com> Subject: Building Python extensions on 64-bit Windows using the SDK compilers Can anyone give me some advice, please? I am trying to build extensions on Windows 64-bit, using the free Windows SDK compilers. But I can't find any official documentation on how to do this, and everything I have tried so far has failed in frustrating ways. I'm now at the point where I appear to be hitting the following bug - http://bugs.python.org/issue7511 which has stumped me completely. Sadly, as is typical with distutils issues, this one seems to have been round for years and there is little or no sign that anyone is willing to fix it. Two questions, really: * Is there any intention that building extensions with the SDK compilers is supported? * How do I do it, if so? Personally, this is of limited relevance, as I have the full version of MSVC available. But I'm trying to put together some documentation for package developers on how to build Windows wheels, in particular using Appveyor to automate the process, with the intention that people shouldn't have to jump through hoops to provide wheels, but should rather be able to simply use a prebuilt recipe to automate the process. As an alternative, I wonder whether Microsoft would be willing to support Appveyor by providing them with access to the full version of MSVC (2008 and 2010) for the build workers? Steve - do you know if there's any possibility of something like that? Paul
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