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Re:Python Wheels by vetinari on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:15AM (#10002192)
Actually, distutils is looking for Visual Studio first in registry, then by env vars. So it should find VS without setting up anything. You just need to have correct version istalled (the banner in repl will tell you that, for example, for ActiveState Python 2.7 = VS2008, 3.x = VS2010).

I was also pleasantly surprised, building python C extensions under Windows is easy. Building some of the C or Fortran dependencies, on the other hand, might be not.

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Re:Python Wheels by e12e on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @05:30AM (#10002370)
Right - remembered something about python giving me very nice error messages (probably over wrong version or 32bit vs 64bit) - along with pretty clear help on how to fix things. Just didn't remember exactly what small task (hit "y"/download+install - or set up env vars) I had to do to get everything to work. I do remember it was (for windows and c compilers) very easy.
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