Well, it's my understanding (I could be wrong), that pyxpcom is to enable firefox/mozilla to use python. My interest is more in the area of xulrunner. I've read that page several times and pulled compiler/linker build steps from it, but never followed it exactly. I suppose I can try pyxpcom instead. Maybe if i can compile that i could coax xulrunner into compiling. Unfortunately, most of the windows pieces are listed as "todo" and "there are no special build instructions", which is why i've been taking pieces from several different sources and trying to make it work. :(
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