On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@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/2dc7ae6a-... 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. 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
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