Jeremy Kloth added the comment: A few things... First to Victor's comments on the devguide. The following sentence after the one quoted states: "To use the build files in the PCbuild directory you will also need Visual Studio 2010" In short, you need *both* VS2008 and VS2010 to compile the "default" way. Secondly, to Steve's comment on the PC\VS9.0 build files. Normally Steve would be correct in stating that the PC\VS* directories are not maintained, however, in this case they are supported. It is explicitly stated as such in the devguide and PCbuild\readme.txt (https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/PCbuild/readme.txt). ---------- nosy: +jkloth _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30350> _______________________________________