What version of Visual Studio and/or MinGW do I need to build extension modules for a given version of Python?

Question

To put this question a different way, what version of Visual C++ was each official build of Python from python.org of Python built with, and what versions of MinGW are compa

Answer 1

If anyone is still interested in this in 2020: I've found this (updated) page that lists the Visual C++ compiler versions (and Visual Studio versions that include them) used for each CPython version:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers