On 25Sep2015 0824, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote:
As I understand it, the MS VS2010 compiler is required (or at least
best practice) for compiling Python extensions for the python.org
Windows builds of py 3.4 and ?[1]
However, MS now makes it very hard (impossible?) to download VS2010
Express ( or Community, or whatever the free as in beer version is
called).
This is the main motivation for moving to VS 2015 for Python 3.5. See
https://docs.python.org/3.5/using/windows.html#compiling-python-on-windows
(same link as [1] with the version changed) and also
https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/3.5.html
I realize that this is not python-dev's responsibility, but if there
is any way to either document where it can be found, or put a bit of
pressure on MS to make it available, as they have for VS2008 and
py2.7, that would be great.
I've applied that pressure already and it's not going to happen :(
The best "solution" is to move to Py 3.5 asap. If you're writing an
extension and are being careful, you can use a later compiler to build
for 3.4 with Py_LIMITED_API set and a lot of care (did I mention you
need to be careful? It's not just FILE* that will break...).
Cheers,
Steve
Sorry to bug this list, I didn't know where else to reach out to.
-Chris
[1] it's actually prefer hard to find out which compiler version is
used for which python version. And has been for years. Would a patch
to the docs, probably here:
https://docs.python.org/3.4/using/windows.html#compiling-python-on-windows
Be considered?
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