[Python-Dev] Compile Python on Windows (OpenSSL)

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed the SP1 for Visual Studio 2010, and it looks like that it
> broke my Windows SDK 7.1 (setenv was missing, cl.exe was also
> missing). I uninstalled the SDK 7.1, and then I saw that a patch is
> required to use Windows SDK 7.1 with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Ah. Too
> late.
>
> I don't understand the link between the SDK and Visual Studio. There
> are not separated directories?
>
> And now I cannot find Windows SDK 7.1 anymore. It looks like it
> disappeared from microsoft.com. The SDK 7.1 was released in 2010, so
> it's now quite old, but it worked well!
>

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101105-how-do-i-install-microsoft-windows-sdk-7-1
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279

Both are about Windows SDK 7.1. The latter is a download link; the former
says what to do if you have VS 2010 installed.


>
> Can I use the SDK 8.0 or 8.1 to build Python extensions for Python 3.3 and
> 3.4?
>
> It took me several hours to have a working platform to build my Python
> extensions for Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4, in 32 and 64 bits with
> automated scripts to run all commands. And now it doesn't work anymore
> :-(
>
> Victor
>
> 2015-01-13 23:46 GMT+01:00 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
> > On 13.01.2015 23:42, Brian Curtin wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Victor Stinner
> >> <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 2015-01-13 23:18 GMT+01:00 Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com>:
> >>>> Technically, Python 3.5 requires Visual Studio 2015
> >>>
> >>> For me, it's *very* difficult to find how to install Visual Studio.
> >>> There are many different websites and web pages which mention Visual
> >>> Studio with a lot of versions and "flavors" (Express, Community,
> >>> Ultimate, etc.).
> >>>
> >>> Visual Studio 2015 was not released yet :-/
> >>>
> >>> My VM has only a disk of 40 GB. Only 12 GB are free. I already have VS
> >>> 2008 Express and VS 2010 Express installed. I understood that
> >>> "Ultimate" includes a *lot* of things, not only a C compiler.
> >>>
> >>> I found a "free" Visual Studio which is in fact Visual Studio 2013
> >>> Community and I read that it's not free.
> >>>
> >>> I sent an email to Brian Curtin to ask to renew my MSDN account. He
> >>> didn't reply yet.
> >>
> >> I saw that and will send it on, but it's still going to take some time
> >> to process - usually a week or so.
> >>
> >> In the meantime, the first result searching for Visual Studio 2015
> >> came up with
> http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-downloads-vs.aspx
> ,
> >> which seems to give you VS2015. I haven't tried to run it since I'm
> >> not on Windows at the moment, but it looks correct.
> >
> > Just a note of caution: for older preview releases of VS the
> > only way to get back to a clean system was to reinstall
> > Windows.
> >
> > I don't know whether this will be different with VS 2015,
> > but if you care for your VM, you should probably create
> > a snapshot before installing VS 2015 preview to make it
> > easy to revert back, e.g. to install the final VS 2015
> > version.
> >
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