installing setuptools on Windows custom python install

[Eric Frederich]

Hello,

I have a python installation that I built myself using Visual Studio 2005.
I need this version because I need to link Python bindings to a 3rd
party library that uses VS 2005.

I want to get setuptools installed to this Python installation but the
installer won't find my version of Python even if it is on the PATH
and PYTHONHOME is set.
So, I am trying to build setuptools but when I run "python setup.py
install" I get the following error.
Any ideas either on how to get the installer to find my installation
or on how to get this to compile?

F:\pyside\setuptools-0.6c11>python setup.py install
running install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 94, in <module>
    scripts = scripts,
  File "F:\My_Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "F:\My_Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "F:\My_Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "F:\pyside\setuptools-0.6c11\setuptools\command\install.py",
line 76, in run
    self.do_egg_install()
  File "F:\pyside\setuptools-0.6c11\setuptools\command\install.py",
line 85, in do_egg_install
    easy_install = self.distribution.get_command_class('easy_install')
  File "F:\pyside\setuptools-0.6c11\setuptools\dist.py", line 395, in
get_command_class
    self.cmdclass[command] = cmdclass = ep.load()
  File "F:\pyside\setuptools-0.6c11\pkg_resources.py", line 1954, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "F:\pyside\setuptools-0.6c11\setuptools\command\easy_install.py",
line 21, in <module>
    from setuptools.package_index import PackageIndex, parse_bdist_wininst
  File "F:\pyside\setuptools-0.6c11\setuptools\package_index.py", line
2, in <module>
    import sys, os.path, re, urlparse, urllib2, shutil, random,
socket, cStringIO
  File "F:\My_Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 94, in <module>
    import httplib
  File "F:\My_Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 71, in <module>
    import socket
  File "F:\My_Python27\lib\socket.py", line 47, in <module>
    import _socket
ImportError: No module named _socket

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