You can download the Windows SDK for .NET 3.5, but it is very old. A better option is to use GCC. The "static mingw toolchain" (gcc 4.8.2 based) created for building the official NumPy and SciPy binary installers should be rather safe:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Mingw-static-toolchain Sturla "Colin J. Williams" <cjwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote: > I gather that Python is compiled with Windows Studio 2008. > > Unfortunately, the MS Download link points to a Studio 2010 advertising .ppx > > Could someone point to an alternative please? > > Colin W. > > PS I need it for Numpy-1.8.1, which does not seem to be available with a > binary version. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list