[issue45877] Inconsistency in minimal supported version of Microsoft Visual Studio

Change by Oleg Iarygin : -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue45877] Inconsistency in minimal supported version of Microsoft Visual Studio

Steve Dower added the comment: It probably all needs straightening out: * Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 *or later* can be used to build the project files * Microsoft Visual C++ 14.3 is what we use to build the official releases for the main branch (3.11) * earlier branches may still be using p

[issue45877] Inconsistency in minimal supported version of Microsoft Visual Studio

New submission from Oleg Iarygin : According to PCbuild/readme.txt: > Using this directory requires an installation of > Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (MSVC 14.1) of any edition. However, Doc/using/windows.rst states that Visual Studio 2017 is not required and 2015 may be used instead: > The