[Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free

Fri Apr 21 19:23:23 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> - Paul Moore has contributed a Python build procedure for the
> free version of the 2003 compiler. This one is without IDE,
> but still, it should allow people without a VS 2003 license
> to work on Python itself; it should also be possible to develop
> extensions with that compiler (although I haven't verified
> that distutils would pick that up correctly).

It's been possible to compile distutils extensions with the VS 2003 toolkit
for far longer than it's possible to compile Python itself:
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/
In fact, it would be great if the patches provided here were reviewed and
integrated into the official Python distutils.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo