MSVS C++ Express not happening.

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Can anyone offer me a workaround or some thoughts on this?

This very excellent article about compiling with VS Express:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/msvc/Scons

will be valuable to someone compiling an older version of Blender, but is a dead end for builds requiring Python 3.3 as they do now.

SCons is not yet available for Python 3.3. ____(Feb.11,2014)
MSVC 64bit command line error:
C:\BlenderSVN\blender>python scons\scons.py
scons: *** SCons version 2.3.0 does not run under Python version 3.3.3.
Python 3 is not yet supported.

See more about that here:
http://www.scons.org/
"SCons 2.3.0 is available (2 Mar 2013)
SCons release 2.3.0 now available from the download page at SourceForge. This release adds new features, and fixes and improves a number of issues. This will be the last release to support Python versions earlier than 2.7, as we begin to move toward supporting Python 3. "

Can anyone offer me a workaround or some thoughts on this?

From:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/cmake
C++ Express
Visual C++ Express 2008 is free but has some limitations:
To make x64 builds you will need the Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 installed.
Debug OpenMP builds can be created but won’t run (only Visual Studio 2008 has the debug runtimes).
The Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack doesn’t support Express, so you won’t be able to build with motion tracking (libmv) or OpenCOLLADA.

Thanks in advance
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The Python installation you have on your system (and is used by scons) is independent from the python that comes bundled with Blender. You can just use a different version of Python.

The only supported version of Visual Studio is 2008, any other version will require you to build the libs of all dependencies yourself. This is the case regardless of whether you use cmake or scons.

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I’ve successfully build with visual studio express 2010 without recompiling the lib…