On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmo...@in-nomine.org> wrote: > -On [20100808 02:23], Nick Coghlan (ncogh...@gmail.com) wrote: >>This used to be more of an issue because MS didn't provide a decent >>free compiler for their platform. These days (since the release of >>Visual Studio Express), we expect that people willing to use (or >>support) a closed OS can cope with also using the free-as-in-beer >>closed compiler provided by the vendor of that OS. > > You don't even need VS Express. > > Install Windows SDK 7.1 and the compilers are supplied with it. Less clutter > if you prefer the command line.
MS may have improved the tools they release with the SDK to the point where they can build a VS solution file (I haven't tried that in years). Historically (i.e. before the first express version of Visual Studio), there were a lot of hoops to jump through to get something that could handle the complete build chain. It was painful enough back when I first started hacking on the Python core that I gave up and just switched to developing on Linux instead. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
