Wow! I must say, I'm less than impressed with the responses so far. I know Ilias can give the impression that he is just trolling, but I can assure you he is not. At least, not in this case. ;-)
So in an effort to make some headway, I'm going to try to summarize the current state of affairs. The bottom line is that compiling C extension modules on the Windows platform for Python 2.4 is, today, a royal pain in the ass. Period. Here's why.
The main challenge is that extensions must be compiled using the same runtime dll as that used by the Python interpreter itself.
Actually compiling extensions with mingw seems to work fine. Have you tried it?
David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
