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MiniMe
MiniMe

Reputation: 1275

Microsoft Compilers for Python 2.7..can't download it, what higher version should I use?

I am trying to install a python package that needs a Windos C++ compiler The install procedure sent me to this link: https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers

I am using Python 2.7 x86 on Win 7 x64 The version indicated on that page is not available anymore (Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 standalone: Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 (x86, x64) )

What can I do? Where can I find the above compiler ?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 16839

Answers (3)

Gabriel Morin
Gabriel Morin

Reputation: 802

The "Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7" download has now been completely removed by Microsoft. (Which BTW, means the Chocolatey install won't work either as it was relying on the Microsoft website as a source.)

As a last resort, the file is available from the Internet Archive. Prefer any other source though, the last thing we want is to hammer the Wayback Machine with unnecessary download requests.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210106040224/https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/6/796EF2E4-801B-4FC4-AB28-B59FBF6D907B/VCForPython27.msi

Here are the hashes to verify integrity in case you grab the file from elsewhere:

   SHA-1: 7800d037ba962f288f9b952001106d35ef57befe
 SHA-256: 070474db76a2e625513a5835df4595df9324d820f9cc97eab2a596dcbc2f5cbf
 SHA-512: 155b52a2ed59730983346899a96f42eb76ff5b4c2b7deb8b5946008b95bb0c6c1e6da31c80b7c68f5fe6881ddaa65ce321c6a52f3b0fc34ee98b4dd8dfa42772

Upvotes: 15

MiniMe
MiniMe

Reputation: 1275

Not sure what is happening with Microsoft today or these days but here is the direct link http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/6/796EF2E4-801B-4FC4-AB28-B59FBF6D907B/VCForPython27.msi

Alternatively you can search github, for "VCForPython27.msi site:github.com"

That will give you either the above link or links to files hosted on Github.

Upvotes: 3

Martin Beckett
Martin Beckett

Reputation: 96119

The express versions of visual studio are free, I assume the command line compiler would work.

You might also need to read Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

Upvotes: 0

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