Eryk Sun added the comment:

>> It's a pain to try to install VS 2008 in 2017: it disappeared from
>> microsoft.com, at least the Express edition.

> I believe that is why Microsoft released the Visual C++ Compiler for 
> Python 2.7 
> (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266) 
> although, if memory serves, there is some issue with the 64-bit
> toolchain.

That release is intended for building extension modules. Is it possible to 
configure it for building CPython?

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