win32all on win95: importv win32file fails

[Mark Hammond]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> wouter at voti.nl (Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)) wrote:
> 
> 
>>For product of mine that uses Python and win32all I get complaints
> 
>>from users on win95 that win32file can not belowded:
> 
>>>>    import win32file
>>>>ImportError: DLL load failed: One of the library files needed 
>>>>to run this application cannot be found
>>
>>I don't have win95 to test this, and I don't get similar complaints
> 
>>from users of other win versions. Is there anything special about
> 
>>win32all on win95?
> 
> 
> Looking over the list of DLL imports for win32file.pyd, I note that it
> requires Winsock2 (WS2_32.DLL).  I don't think that is included with Win95,
> so I'll bet that's the problem.
> 
> Check here: I believe you can download Winsock2 for Win95.
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/
> 
> BTW, here is the complete list of imports for win32file.pyd:
>     KERNEL32.dll
>     OLEAUT32.dll
>     PyWinTypes22.dll
>     python22.dll
>     MSVCRT.dll
>     MSWSOCK.dll
>     WS2_32.dll

Note sure if winsock2 is the problem, but I am fairly sure CancelIO 
doesn't exist on 95.  I'm afraid someone who cares enough will need to 
send me a patch.

Mark.