Where is wxPython?

Robin Dunn robin at alldunn.com
Wed Oct 25 17:21:39 EDT 2000


>
> > Actually, I believe that you should be able to put the DLL in the
same
> > directory as the DLL which uses it (ie, the wxPython PYD file). I've
> > done this with other modules and it seems to work.
> >
> > Basically, Python itself loads DLLs (PYDs) from explicit directories
> > in sys.path. If these DLLs load other DLLs, I believe that the
search
> > path includes the directory in which the loading DLL is located,
> > rather than the directory in which the original EXE is located. The
> > Windows documentation seems to imply otherwise - all I can say is
that
> > it seems to work.
>
> I'm sure I tried that before and it didn't work...  But it *is*
working
> for me now with both 1.5.2 and 2.0.  Perhaps it is a win2k thing,
which
> version of windows are you running?
>

Well I just tried it on win98 and it worked, so I must have screwed
something up when experimenting before.  I'll change my installer script
right now.

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Robin Dunn
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