Visual C++ for Python cannot handle c++11 error C2039: 'data': is not a member of std::vector

Running into a compilation error using python setup.py install, and the error is the following:

 : error C2039: 'data' : is not a member of 'std::vector<_Ty>'
        with
        [
            _Ty=unsigned int
        ]

Microsoft Visual has a VC++ for Python, which uses Visual C++ 2008, which doesn't support c++11 (which I think is required for that part of the code to work.

std::vector<unsigned> tab((m + 1) * 2);
unsigned *cur = tab.data(), *prev = tab.data() + m + 1;

Is there any workaround to either that part of the code, or by forcing python install to use MV C++ 2015.

The entire code is here: http://ift.tt/1HIcnKk