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holdenweb at gmail

Oct 28, 2009, 8:34 PM

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MSDN subscribers: Using Visual Studio?

I just wondered, with the recent flood of new MSDN subscriptions loosed
on the developer community, how many people have installed the required
version of Visual Studio and built Python for Windows from source? Not
being that familiar with the process myself I was hoping for some advice
from the inexperienced who have overcome any hurdles there might be. I
have a pristine virtual machine just waiting for the right pieces ...

Also what other uses have you found for the licenses? It would be good
to get some information about how useful the licenses have been, and how
they have helped people to improve Python's quality or ease of
distribution (if they have). I'm sure Microsoft would also appreciate
some positive feedback to their generosity, and I'll undertake to
provide that if this message elicits much by way of reply.

Since I'm pretty much too busy to follow the dev list right now I'd
appreciate direct Cc's.

regards
Steve

PS: If any further core developers need licenses, I plan to apply to
Microsoft again in the new year. I'll be sending out a message then, I
don't intend to keep a waiting list.
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solipsis at pitrou

Oct 29, 2009, 4:20 AM

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Re: MSDN subscribers: Using Visual Studio? [In reply to]

Steve Holden <holdenweb <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> I just wondered, with the recent flood of new MSDN subscriptions loosed
> on the developer community, how many people have installed the required
> version of Visual Studio and built Python for Windows from source? Not
> being that familiar with the process myself I was hoping for some advice
> from the inexperienced who have overcome any hurdles there might be. I
> have a pristine virtual machine just waiting for the right pieces ...

If it's just a matter of building and testing it you don't need any MSDN
subscription, you just need Visual Studio Express which is free (as in
free beer...). I don't know if it allows you to build an installer
though.

I won't reply to the other part of the message since I haven't asked for
(nor received) any MSDN subscription :)

Regards

Antoine.

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daniel at stutzbachenterprises

Oct 29, 2009, 10:15 AM

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Re: MSDN subscribers: Using Visual Studio? [In reply to]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis [at] pitrou> wrote:

> If it's just a matter of building and testing it you don't need any MSDN
> subscription, you just need Visual Studio Express which is free (as in
> free beer...). I don't know if it allows you to build an installer
> though.
>

It does. If I recall correctly, in addition to Visual Studio Express, I
also needed the Windows SDK (which is also free as in beer).

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Oct 29, 2009, 11:21 AM

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Re: MSDN subscribers: Using Visual Studio? [In reply to]

Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> It does. If I recall correctly, in addition to Visual Studio Express, I
> also needed the Windows SDK (which is also free as in beer).

The VS 2008 Express Edition is sufficient to build X86 binaries on
Windows. The express edition doesn't support X64_86. though.

Christian

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