troubles building python 2.5 on Windows XP x64 Windows Server 2003 sp1 Platform SDK

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I guess I am a little confused on the directions for the vsextcomp. I
> don't see an IDE for the vsextcomp. Do you know of any explicit
> directions on how to do this build?

Can you please explicitly say what step you did and at what precise
step you failed?

0. Install VS 2003
1. Install vsextcomp
2. open VS 2003
3. open the project files in PCbuild
4. select the AMD64 target
5. run build

HTH,
Martin