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Thank you for your reply.
In desperation, I started downloading an evaluation version
of msvs.net 2003 from bittorrent.
But before the download was even halfway complete, I had
already installed mingw on my winbox and sorted out the
intricacies of compiling 3rd party libs, and building
working python extensions, using only mingw.
As a result, I am now free of the shackles of proprietary MS
toolchains, and am comfortable with mingw - especially since
most of the multiplatform 3rd party libs I've seen offer
good build support for MinGW. All my extensions, and others'
extensions I'm using, are now building quite happily with MinGW.
From this perspective, I no longer have interest in being
able to build extensions with MS tools - freeware MSVC
compilers or otherwise. In fact, depending on a proprietary
toolchain to build Free/Opensource software now feels
ludicrous. Therefore, I'd be perfectly comfortable if you
want to close this support ticket.
Cheers
David