apphelp.dll dependency of python22.dll

[Achim Domma]

Hi,

thanks for all the response. It seems that my system was completly wrong
configurated. After installing SP2 and recompiling everything it looks much
better.

Achim

"John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote in message
news:c76ff6fc.0205220440.74fa6a44 at posting.google.com...
> "Achim Domma" <achim.domma at syynx.de> wrote in message
news:<acfba4$dgm$07$1 at news.t-online.com>...
> > "Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.1022023716.25545.python-list at python.org...
> > > The PythonLabs python22.dll was built on a Win98SE box.  This is no
> > > apphelp.dll on the box, and Dependency Walker shows no such
dependence.
> >
> > python22.dll depends on shlwapi.dll. The newest version of this dll
> > introduces a dependency to apphelp.dll. So it seems to be a microsoft
> > problem and I will try it in their newsgroups.
> >
>
> I have Windows 2000. Dependency Walker shows (like Achim's case under
> Windows XP) that the Pythonlabs python22.dll depends on shell32.dll,
> which depends on shlwapi.dll, which depends on apphelp.dll, which is
> missing [* OT footnote]. However I have had no problems with importing
> my own extensions -- which are compiled with mingw gcc and with
> Borland C/C++ 5.5, not with MS VC (which shouldn't make a difference).
>
> Achim, What is the error message you get when you try to import your
> own extension? Have you tried copying your pyd to a box running an
> earlier version of Windows and importing it there? What makes you
> think it is the fault of the missing apphelp.dll?
>
> HTH,
> John
>
> [*] ... which reminded me of the novel "Ivanhoe", in which IIRC the
> jester introduces himself as "Wamba, the son of Witless, the son of
> Weatherbrain, the son of an alderman."