[Distutils] borland compiler

i'm trying to get borland's free commandline compiler working with a sample module i'm testing with. everything goes fine in the compile, but the linker is giving me the following error: Error: 'D:\PYTHON\LIBS\PYTHON20.LIB' contains invalid OMF record, type 0x21 (possibly COFF) ok, sounds like the python20.lib is incompatible with borland's compiler (??). if so, that seems like a big pain. does anyone have the steps needed to get this compiler working? i've not found any help from the docs or source yet. i'm guessing i'll need to recompile python with borland? (i didn't think that was an option?) perhaps i'm better off going with cygnus or mingw? what is the most common free win32 compiler for use with distutils?