[issue43298] Windows build cannot detect missing Windows SDK

2021-02-23 Thread Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas added the comment: Hi Steve actually there was none installed which was strange as I had Visual Studio installed but it was not checked by default. After selecting it and installing it, everything works as expected. Updating the error message in some way might be helpful

[issue43298] Windows build cannot detect missing Windows SDK

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas added the comment: Thank you Steve. I did not have the latest installed which is Win10SDK_10.0.18362, therefore it did trigger that original error in msg387518. After installing, Win10SDK_10.0.18362, it did in-fact allow a successful compilation. Updating that error code

[issue43298] Windows build issue

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Thomas
New submission from Kevin Thomas : When compiling for Windows it does not properly handle the version string MSB4184 C:\Users\kevin\cpython>PCbuild\build.bat Using py -3.7 (found 3.7 with py.exe) Fetching external libraries... bzip2-1.0.6 already exists, skipping. sqlite-3.34.0.0 alre