>  * what version of Visual Studio, Visual C++ Express or the DDK you
> installed

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.867 (vsvista.050727-8600)

>  * the output of the "[RBUILD] makefile.auto" phase

[RBUILD]   makefile.auto
Reading build files...done
Detecting compiler...detected (cl 14.0.50727.762)
Detecting binutils...detected (link 8.0.50727.762)
Detecting netwide assembler...detected (nasm 2.05.01)
Detecting compiler pre-compiled header support...disabled
Processing modules...done
Creating directories...done
Generating test support code...done
Generating compilation unit support code...done
Generating syssetup.inf...done
Generating proxy makefiles...done
Checking automatic dependencies...done


Regards,
Victor.