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  r82131 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-21 10:37:16 -0500 (Mon, 21 Jun 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 82130 via svnmerge from
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    r82130 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-06-21 10:27:46 -0500 (Mon, 21 Jun 2010) | 1 line

    fix finding visual studio 2008 on 64 bit #8854
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Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py

@@ -38,9 +38,18 @@ HKEYS = (winreg.HKEY_USERS,
          winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
          winreg.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT)
 
-VS_BASE = r"Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\%0.1f"
-WINSDK_BASE = r"Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows"
-NET_BASE = r"Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework"
+NATIVE_WIN64 = (sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.maxsize > 2**32)
+if NATIVE_WIN64:
+    # Visual C++ is a 32-bit application, so we need to look in
+    # the corresponding registry branch, if we're running a
+    # 64-bit Python on Win64
+    VS_BASE = r"Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\%0.1f"
+    WINSDK_BASE = r"Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows"
+    NET_BASE = r"Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework"
+else:
+    VS_BASE = r"Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\%0.1f"
+    WINSDK_BASE = r"Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows"
+    NET_BASE = r"Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework"
 
 # A map keyed by get_platform() return values to values accepted by
 # 'vcvarsall.bat'.  Note a cross-compile may combine these (eg, 'x86_amd64' is

Misc/NEWS

@@ -778,6 +778,8 @@ C-API
 Build
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+- Issue #8854: Fix finding Visual Studio 2008 on Windows x64.
+
 - Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
 
 - Issue #7632: When Py_USING_MEMORY_DEBUGGER is defined, disable the