win32 DLL import problem

[John J. Lee]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John J. Lee wrote:
[...]
> Having got past that one, a slightly tougher one: my copy of TableIO
> (compiled and run on the same two machines mentioned above), works on our
> NT machine, but hangs the Python interpreter shell on our win95 laptop.
> Now, I know that since (apparently) I linked against crtdll.dll rather
> than msvcrt.dll by omitting -mno-cygwin somewhere, bad things may happen
> as a result.  But do these bad things really happen on win95 but not NT??
[...]

Oops.  I used 'cygwin' rather than 'mingw32' as the distutils compiler
class.  It works now.  Apparently the bad things do only happen on NT in
this particular case.


John