[issue26768] Fix instructions at WindowsCompilers for MSVC/SDKs

Ivan Pozdeev added the comment: I know it's a wiki. But this particular page is marked ImmutablePage and I couldn't edit it even after I registered, so I thought It's protected. I'll try the e-mail now. -- resolution: third party -> status: closed -> open

[issue26768] Fix instructions at WindowsCompilers for MSVC/SDKs

Changes by Ivan Pozdeev : -- resolution: -> third party status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing li

[issue26768] Fix instructions at WindowsCompilers for MSVC/SDKs

Berker Peksag added the comment: Thanks for the detailed report and for the patch, Ivan. But since https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers is a wiki document, you can edit it yourself. Please send an email to pydotorg-...@python.org with your account name. See https://wiki.python.org/moi

[issue26768] Fix instructions at WindowsCompilers for MSVC/SDKs

Ivan Pozdeev added the comment: I preferred DISTUTILS_USE_SDK to MSSDK because the latter is a hack intended for private, advanced use rather than as the standard way: it makes distutils stop guessing and rely on the user to set the environment correctly. -- __

[issue26768] Fix instructions at WindowsCompilers for MSVC/SDKs

Changes by Ivan Pozdeev : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42469/0002-VS-Express.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue26768] Fix instructions at WindowsCompilers for MSVC/SDKs

New submission from Ivan Pozdeev: Current instructions at https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers for a number of items are insufficient to make things work out of the box. This has lead to widespread confusion and a lot of vastly different and invariably hacky/unreliable/unmaintainable "