HELP : pystemmer win32 binary

[RichH]

In article <mailman.6205.1100074733.5135.python-list at python.org>, 
bingham at cenix-bioscience.com says...
> kent sin wrote:
> 
> >I urgently need a binary version of pystemmer. I am
> >using python 2.3 and windows 2000.
> >
> >I have try to download the free MSVC toolkit. But
> >don't known how to do it myself. 
> >
> AFAIK, the free MS compiler will not help you here, because binaries 
> created with it are incompatible with MSVC 6.0, with which Python 2.3 is 
> built.  You can build Python 2.3 extensions using MinGW, however.  See 
> http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/Python%20extensions. 
> 

Incompatible?  About the only thing I have problem with is the print 
method in C++.  I use 7.1 to compile all my extensions.  MSVC is crap
for any kind of standard C++.

Remember, the python C API is extern "C", so compiling with 7.1 isn't
an issue unless you use shared crt structs (like the FILE* in print).

Cheers,
Rich