Okay the link problem was solved: i had installed a 64bit python and my app is 32bit.
i'm using ActivePython installer from here: http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads it seems that now the problem is that this does not install the _d versions of the .lib. :( does anyone know how to get or create the _d version of the .lib out of the ActivePtyon installation? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list