[Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.5.0a4 is now available

[Steve Dower]

Donald Stufft wrote:
> Is this version statically linked by any chance?

No, there's no change to the compilation process, so you can get exactly the same result by using the regular installer and copying the files around.

Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but on Windows DLLs are always loaded from alongside the executable before searching in other locations. I learned at PyCon that some platforms embed full paths for .so's (I'd always just assumed that there was a similar resolution process), but this is not the case here. Dropping all the DLLs and PYDs in the same location is sufficient to make sure you always load the right files, unless sys.path has been filled in with incorrect registry values (the bug I referenced).

Cheers,
Steve