From: Case Van Horsen > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > Clicking this link > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14597 > > on this Developer Guide page > > http://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html#windows > > now returns a > > "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found." > > page with search results. > > > > The first search result > > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/nl/Vsexpressinstall/thread/2dc > > 7ae6a-a0e7-436b-a1b3-3597ffac6a97 suggests that one must first go to > > http://profile.microsoft.com which forwards to the live.com login > > page. Logging in with my un-expired non-developer account did not make > > the original link work. > > > > The mdsn page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/ has Visual Studio / > > Download trial, which leads to > > https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads > > which lists 2012 and 2010 but not 2008. > > > > I suspect that an msdn account is required for most people to get 2008. > > > > A later link leads to > > https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=34# > > which suggests that vc++2008 express is also available to verified > > degree students. I don't qualify so I will not try. > > > > So it would appear that section "1.1.3.3. Windows" of "1. Getting Started" > > (setup.rst) needs further revision. > > > > Or perhaps we could persuade Microsoft to let us distribute it > > ourselves so Windows versions of 2.7 do not become increasingly > unusable. > > The "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1" > is still available for download. It includes the command line compilers that > are > used with VS 2008. I have used to create extensions for Python 2.6 to 3.2. > There is a later version of the SDK (for .NET > 4.x) that includes the compilers from VS 2010.
This is the same response that I got internally. The download link is http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3138 and you can choose to only download and install the compilers. Cheers, Steve > To use the SDK compiler, you need to do a few manual steps first. > > After starting a command window, you need to run a batch file to configure > your environment. Choose the appropriate option from > > C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars64.bat > > or > > C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat > > Then set two environment variables: > > set MSSdk=1 > set DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1 > > > After these steps, the standard python setup.py install should work. > > casevh > > > > -- > > Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
