building python extensions with .net sdk compiler?

[Anthony Baxter]

I'm trying to build a binary of fastaudio (the wrapper for the PortAudio
library, from http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pyPortAudio/) for Python 2.3.
There's a lot of FAQs and the like out there that give some simple directions,
involving fetching the .net sdk from MSDN and distutils "should work" - 
however, when I follow them and try to do the setup.py build step, I get
a message:
  error: Python was built with version 6 of Visual Studio, and extensions need 
  to be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed.

Argh. All I want is a simple way to say 'give me a binary object that I can 
drop into my site-packages directory'. Is there a way, or am I screwed?

Anthony

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