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Features and minimum versions required to build CPython:

* On Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later is required.

* A `C11 <https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/11>`_ compiler. `Optional C11
features
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_(C_standard_revision)#Optional_features>`_
are not required.

* On Windows, Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later is required.

* Support for `IEEE 754 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754>`_ floating
point numbers and `floating point Not-a-Number (NaN)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN#Floating_point>`_.
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inline`` functions.

.. versionchanged:: 3.5
On Windows, Visual Studio 2015 or later is required.
On Windows, Visual Studio 2015 or later is now required.
Tcl/Tk version 8.4 is now required.

.. versionchanged:: 3.1
Tcl/Tk version 8.3.1 is now required.

See also :pep:`7` "Style Guide for C Code" and :pep:`11` "CPython platform
support".
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