Managed to convince the MSToolkit toolchain to create a binary for SimpleParse, though it required manually copying the individual commands distutils was spitting out and running them from the command line. Bah.

Apparently the MSToolkit as I have it set up always tries to run the linker and fails. There is also some problem with the linker, but I haven't figured out what it is, it will only work when run from the command line, not the distutils script. Bah.

Anyway, upshot is that I got the silly library to build and pass all tests under Python 2.5. I was going to try to get the VRML accellerator modules built as well, but they are currently written against Numeric and thus need to be updated for numpy.