I use the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 to compile Python extension for Python 2.4. Once installed, it works well. With and without distutils. I also have a installation of Visual Studio 2005 on the same machine.
See: http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ for more information. There are a lot of tools 'missing' in VTK 2003 for example nmake or cvtres. If you need them, you can copy them from your VS 2005 installation. BTW VTK 2003 does not come with debugging versions of the runtime libs. That means you can not build debug releases this way. HTH, Noel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
