Thanks all for your replies. I have now installed MSVC8 and YASM.
I was able to successfully run configure.bat and make.bat (including make.bat check). However, I'm unsure what to do about install, since there is no install arg. Do I copy it across to my VC\bin folder, or does it need it's own place in PATH + system variables? I am asking because I don't know where it is looking for the MPIR library. Thanks for all suggestions, Alec Taylor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list