title: What version of Visual Studio and/or MinGW do I need to build extension modules for a given version of Python?
body: <p>To put this question a different way, what version of Visual C++ was each official build of Python from <a href="http://python.org">python.org</a> of Python built with, and what versions of MinGW are compatible with those versions of Visual C++?</p>
  
  <p>Is this information readily available on some web site?</p>