Window extension question

[Alex Martelli]

"Olivier Paquay" <awaken71 at yahoo.fr> wrote in message
news:39fa93df$0$4491$73bec57d at news.be.uu.net...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to make a Windows DLL extension. The main C file was generated
> with SWIG. Everything compiles fine but i have a link problem
>
> Linking...
> ..\..\Python16\libs\python16.lib : fatal error LNK1106: invalid file or
disk
> full: cannot seek to 0x39b65ad1
> Error executing link.exe.
>
> I get this message under DevStudio. I tried compiling with a Makefile in
the
> way described in the Python Doc but i get the same message.

Looks like your python16.lib is damaged ("invalid file", as the
message says -- "disk full" seems unlikely to cause this).  Try
uninstalling Python 1.6, download and install 2.0, and rebuild
all of your extension, then it should work.


Alex