How can I build py2exe without errors?

I'm not a windows user typically, but I need to build exe's from my python code so I'd like to use py2exe to do this. I have an XP system where I installed python 2.6.6. I downloaded the py2exe-0.6.9 source, but when I attempted to install (via "python setup.py install"), I got the error "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat". I googled and came across this post where a respondent suggested installing a customized version of the MinGW GCC binaries available here. I did so, and now when I attempt to install py2exe I get a new error. Here is the output:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\py2exe-0.6.9>python setup.py install
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\py2exe-0.6.9\py2exe\build_exe.py:16: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  import sets
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_memimporter' extension
creating build\temp.win32-2.6
creating build\temp.win32-2.6\Release
creating build\temp.win32-2.6\Release\source
c:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall -DPYTHONDLL=\"PYTHON26.DLL\" -DPYTHONCOM=\"pythoncom26.dll\" -IC:\Python26\include -IC:\Python26\PC -c source/MemoryModule.c -o build\temp.win32-2.6\Release\source\memorymodule.o
source/MemoryModule.c:30: warning: ignoring #pragma warning
source/MemoryModule.c: In function 'BuildImportTable':
source/MemoryModule.c:364: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'MyLoadLibrary' differ in signedness
source/MemoryModule.c: In function 'GetNameTable':
source/MemoryModule.c:610: warning: passing argume开发者_JAVA百科nt 4 of 'qsort' from incompatible pointer type
source/MemoryModule.c: In function 'MemoryGetProcAddress':
source/MemoryModule.c:637: warning: passing argument 5 of 'bsearch' from incompatible pointer type
c:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall -DPYTHONDLL=\"PYTHON26.DLL\" -DPYTHONCOM=\"pythoncom26.dll\" -IC:\Python26\include -IC:\Python26\PC -c source/_memimporter_module.c -o build\temp.win32-2.6\Release\source\_memimporter_module.o

In file included from source/_memimporter.c:8,
                 from source/_memimporter_module.c:2:
source/Python-version.h:13: error: redefinition of typedef 'Py_ssize_t'
C:\Python26\include/pyport.h:115: error: previous declaration of 'Py_ssize_t' was here
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

http://bugs.python.org/issue1485576 might be a bug you may want to re-open, providing your testcase to support it.