Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

[sturlamolden]

On 7 Jul, 23:19, "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach
+use... at gmail.com> wrote:

>    D Linking the CRT dynamically and providing an optional download and
>      install of the redistributables if they're not present. This would
>      best be done with some support from the Python installation machinery.
>      -> Small nice size for extensions, still same CRT state problems.

This was a problem for py2exe'd apps before Python 2.6 (i.e. no public
download for Visual C++ 2003 runtime files.) But for Visual C++ 2008
and 2010, the CRTs can be downloaded from Microsoft and need not be
shipped with the application.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BA9257CA-337F-4B40-8C14-157CFDFFEE4E&displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BD512D9E-43C8-4655-81BF-9350143D5867&displaylang=en