Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-29 Thread TP
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Colin J. Williams wrote: > ii. The Service Pack 1 has the original studio as a prerequisite. That is > no longer available from Microsoft. I haven't tried it but the Visual Studio 2008 Professional 90 Day Trial iso *is* available from Microsoft at [1]. This doe

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-29 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Colin J. Williams wrote: > i. I've seen notes, in various places to say that the Express version is > not acceptable for compiling Python packages. Is it, in fact usable for > this purpose? I'm not 100% sure on the details, but I do believe the intention was al

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 29/07/2014 13:54, Colin J. Williams wrote: i. I've seen notes, in various places to say that the Express version is not acceptable for compiling Python packages. Is it, in fact usable for this purpose? All wrong, I've been using the express editions for years with no problems. See here f

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-29 Thread Colin J. Williams
i. I've seen notes, in various places to say that the Express version is not acceptable for compiling Python packages. Is it, in fact usable for this purpose? ii. The Service Pack 1 has the original studio as a prerequisite. That is no longer available from Microsoft. Any advice would be welco

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread Sturla Molden
Irmen de Jong wrote: > I haven't tried this, but installing the SDK should allow you to build > extensions as > well for that particular Python build. Be sure to get the SDK that belongs to > vs2008, > which is this one if I'm not mistaken: > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.a

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread Sturla Molden
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 S

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread TP
Hmmm. Now that I think about it the full Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 download I mentioned in my last email probably needs to have Visual Studio 2008 already installed (it's been a number of years since I had to install VS2008)? You could try it and see if it works. If not download

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread Irmen de Jong
On 28-7-2014 16:40, Colin J. Williams 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

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Colin J. Williams 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? That would be specific to one particular versi

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 7/28/14 10:40 AM, Colin J. Williams 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

Re: Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread Joel Goldstick
I haven't tried it (linux guy), but people talk about using ActiveState's binaries On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Colin J. Williams wrote: > I gather that Python is compiled with Windows Studio 2008. > > Unfortunately, the MS Download link points to a Studio 2010 advertising > .ppx > > Could

Windows Studio 2008 Download

2014-07-28 Thread Colin J. Williams
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://ma