[Python-Dev] More detailed build instructions for Windows

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Reid Kleckner <reid.kleckner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm trying to test out a patch to add a timeout in subprocess.py on
> Windows, so I need to build Python with Visual Studio.  The docs say
> the files in PCBuild/ work with VC 9 and newer.  I downloaded Visual
> C++ 2010 Express, and it needs to convert the .vcproj files into
> .vcxproj files, but it fails.
>
> I can't figure out where to get VC 9, all I see is 2008 and 2010.

VS 2008 == VC 9 == MSVC 15

David