[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer

[Guido van Rossum]

> How do we get hold of the free VC 7 compilers?

Here's the info Nick sent me:

| We offer as part of the .NET Framework SDK each of the compilers that
| comprise our Visual Studio tool - including C++.  The caveat here is
| that we don't yet ship the full CRT or STL with this distribution -
| this will be changing.  Also, the 64bit C++ compilers ship for free as
| part of the Windows Platform SDK.  All of this is available on
| msdn.microsoft.com.
[...]
| Here are the links to the SDKs.  But so you aren't surprised, these are
| NOT low-overhead downloads or installs...
| 
| .NET Framework 1.1
| 
| http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/howtoget.aspx
| 
| Platform SDK
| 
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sdkintro/sdkintro/obtaining_the_complete_sdk.asp

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)