[Python-3000] Compiling Python 3.0 with VS 2008 Beta2

[Christian Heimes]

Joe Smith wrote:
> While ml.exe is intentionally omitted for the express version of Visual C++, 
> the standard versions of Visual Studio are supposed to include ml.exe.
> The VS 2008 beta 2 version omitted it by mistake. At the moment there is no 
> convenient way to get the latest version. This should be fixed for the final 
> release.
> 
> (Obviously the older versions still work.) 

The older versions don't work with the latest version of openssl. I
guess they don't understand SSE2. I had more luck with the free nasm
assembler from kernel.org.

Christian