[issue42380] Build windows binaries with MS VS2019 16.8+ / MSVC 19.28+

Steve Dower added the comment: Closing this as not a bug, since the toolchain used to build CPython itself has no impact on the toolchain that extensions can use. If your build tool is not detecting newer versions of MSVC, you'll need to file that against whichever backend you are using. --

[issue42380] Build windows binaries with MS VS2019 16.8+ / MSVC 19.28+

h-vetinari added the comment: PPS. Also, the compiler implementation reference uses 19.x for MSVC: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support, which was the link I was trying to make, now that I'm looking at it. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue42380] Build windows binaries with MS VS2019 16.8+ / MSVC 19.28+

h-vetinari added the comment: PS. > Judging from the link you posted to version numbering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B#Internal_version_numbering the first line should have 'MSVC 14.28' the middle column title should be 'MS Visual Studio'. The wiki page was refactor

[issue42380] Build windows binaries with MS VS2019 16.8+ / MSVC 19.28+

h-vetinari added the comment: Hey Terry I had asked about this on discuss (https://discuss.python.org/t/toolchain-upgrade-on-windows/6377/2), and Steve provided some very valuable input. In particular, building with the newer VS (that supports C11) should stay ABI-compatible with everythin

[issue42380] Build windows binaries with MS VS2019 16.8+ / MSVC 19.28+

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Judging from the link you posted to version numbering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B#Internal_version_numbering the first line should have 'MSVC 14.28' the middle column title should be 'MS Visual Studio'. Mark Shannon today posted "W

[issue42380] Build windows binaries with MS VS2019 16.8+ / MSVC 19.28+

New submission from h-vetinari : While Visual Studio 16.8 (<-> MSVC 19.28) has _just_ been released, I think it would be worthwhile to consider upgrading the compiler toolchain that's used to build the CPython windows binaries, particularly before the release of 3.10. That's because many libr