diff -crB thrift-0.2.0/lib/py/setup.py thrift-0.2.0-msvc-patched/lib/py/setup.py
*** thrift-0.2.0/lib/py/setup.py	2009-05-10 13:14:44.000000000 +0800
--- thrift-0.2.0-msvc-patched/lib/py/setup.py	2010-01-20 14:15:29.000000000 +0800
***************
*** 19,28 ****
--- 19,35 ----
  # under the License.
  #
  
+ import sys
  from distutils.core import setup, Extension
  
+ libraries = []
+ 
+ if sys.platform == 'win32':
+     libraries.append('ws2_32')
+ 
  fastbinarymod = Extension('thrift.protocol.fastbinary',
                            sources = ['src/protocol/fastbinary.c'],
+                           libraries = libraries,			  
                            )
  
  setup(name = 'Thrift',
diff -crB thrift-0.2.0/lib/py/src/protocol/fastbinary.c thrift-0.2.0-msvc-patched/lib/py/src/protocol/fastbinary.c
*** thrift-0.2.0/lib/py/src/protocol/fastbinary.c	2009-03-31 05:35:00.000000000 +0800
--- thrift-0.2.0-msvc-patched/lib/py/src/protocol/fastbinary.c	2010-01-20 14:54:27.000000000 +0800
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*** 19,27 ****
--- 19,49 ----
  
  #include <Python.h>
  #include "cStringIO.h"
+ #ifdef _MSC_VER
+ #undef inline
+ #define inline __inline
+ #undef bool
+ #define bool int
+ #define false 0
+ #define true 1
+ typedef __int8     int8_t;
+ typedef __int16    int16_t;
+ typedef __int32    int32_t;
+ typedef __int64    int64_t;
+ #define INT8_MIN     ((int8_t)_I8_MIN)
+ #define INT8_MAX     _I8_MAX
+ #define INT16_MIN    ((int16_t)_I16_MIN)
+ #define INT16_MAX    _I16_MAX
+ #define INT32_MIN    ((int32_t)_I32_MIN)
+ #define INT32_MAX    _I32_MAX
+ #define INT64_MIN    ((int64_t)_I64_MIN)
+ #define INT64_MAX    _I64_MAX
+ #include <winsock2.h>
+ #else
  #include <stdbool.h>
  #include <stdint.h>
  #include <netinet/in.h>
+ #endif
  
  /* Fix endianness issues on Solaris */
  #if defined (__SVR4) && defined (__sun)
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*** 42,47 ****
--- 64,82 ----
   #endif
  #endif
  
+ #ifndef BYTE_ORDER
+ #ifdef _MSC_VER
+  #ifndef BIG_ENDIAN
+   #define BIG_ENDIAN (4321)
+  #endif
+  #ifndef LITTLE_ENDIAN
+   #define LITTLE_ENDIAN (1234)
+  #endif
+  
+  #define BYTE_ORDER LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ #endif
+ #endif
+ 
  // TODO(dreiss): defval appears to be unused.  Look into removing it.
  // TODO(dreiss): Make parse_spec_args recursive, and cache the output
  //               permanently in the object.  (Malloc and orphan.)
***************
*** 1110,1120 ****
  
    case T_STRUCT: {
      StructTypeArgs parsedargs;
      if (!parse_struct_args(&parsedargs, typeargs)) {
        return NULL;
      }
  
!     PyObject* ret = PyObject_CallObject(parsedargs.klass, NULL);
      if (!ret) {
        return NULL;
      }
--- 1145,1156 ----
  
    case T_STRUCT: {
      StructTypeArgs parsedargs;
+     PyObject* ret = NULL;
      if (!parse_struct_args(&parsedargs, typeargs)) {
        return NULL;
      }
  
!     (PyObject*) ret = PyObject_CallObject(parsedargs.klass, NULL);
      if (!ret) {
        return NULL;
      }
***************
*** 1147,1153 ****
    PyObject* transport = NULL;
    PyObject* typeargs = NULL;
    StructTypeArgs parsedargs;
!   DecodeBuffer input = {};
  
    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOO", &output_obj, &transport, &typeargs)) {
      return NULL;
--- 1183,1189 ----
    PyObject* transport = NULL;
    PyObject* typeargs = NULL;
    StructTypeArgs parsedargs;
!   DecodeBuffer input;
  
    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOO", &output_obj, &transport, &typeargs)) {
      return NULL;