Mailing List Archive: Missing DLL's

On Tue, 04 May 1999 14:03:21 +0200, "Thomas S. Strinnhed" <thstr@serop.abb.se>
wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm working on Windows NT, MS Developer Studio and are trying to embed
>the Python interprter in an application.
>
>When i run the .exe file I get a message saying:
>"The dynamic link library python15_d.dll could not be found in the
>specified path ...<My PATH environment varible>"
>
>This is not so strange considering there are no such dll-file at all,
>not in the binary distribution nor the source distribution, just a
>"python15_d.lib".
>
>What to do?
>Can I make a dll from the .lib file? How?
>
>Thanks
> - Thomas S. Strinnhed, thstr@serop.abb.se

Thomas,

Sounds like you are building your exe in Debug mode. Try building the release
version.

When built with Debug enabled on Windows, imported dll's and pyds have the _d
appended to avoid conflicts with loading debug and non-debug dll's.

If you need to debug your exe, you will need to build debug versions of all the
python dll's and pyds you import.

See the readme in the PCbuild directory in the source distribution:

>>When using the Debug setting, the output files have a _d added to
>>their name: python15_d.dll, python_d.exe, parser_d.pyd, and so on.

Cheers,

Roger Burnham
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation
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