title: Where do I get the Python DLLs for Visual Studio?
body: <p>This is probably a pretty stupid question but surprisingly I have been unable to find any information about it (partly due to there being so many different variations on the theme of Python &amp; C clogging up my search results).</p>
  
  <p>I want to build an application in C++ that can be extended using Python. To this end the application should able to execute Python scripts which can in turn call methods provided by the application. I specifically want to be able to do this on Windows.</p>
  
  <p>I've examined the source of the Blender project (<a href="http://www.blender.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.blender.org</a>) and I found a set of header files from Python and some binaries (python34.dll, python34.lib). Where do I get these binaries officially? I can't find a package of them anywhere, nor can I work out if one of the source packages is supposed to compile into them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>