[Numpy-discussion] Is anyone knowledgeable about dll deployment on windows ?
David Cournapeau
david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Fri Feb 15 07:44:42 EST 2008
Jon Wright wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> To be honest I'd be nervous about spreading your depedencies all over
> the disk, the potential interactions go as n^2.
Well, I am more than nervous, this is totally insane, and I tried
different things (registry: per application path, etc...). But it just
looks like windows is even more f***-up than I thought. I am tired of
wasting my time for this broken platform: I am really near giving up
supporting MS compilers at all.
> According to msdn there
> is a function which might work:
>
> "SetDllDirectory: Adds a directory to the search path used to locate
> DLLs for the application."
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686203.aspx
Well, this does not sound right to me either; anyway, this is a C
function which does not seem to be available from python.
> Otherwise you might have to copy the
> mkl dll into the "directory from which the application loaded". This
> would seem like a better choice, but I do wonder where that is for python.
This directory depends on how you start python, I think, so this is not
better. Having looked at how installers do it, there does not seem to be
much choice: either use PATH (actually, that's what the MKL is doing),
or put everything in hardcoded directories (system32 and co). The other
solution I see is to add the paths to the registry for the python
application (it seems that windows has a registry subtree App Paths to
handle per application dll path, but touching the registry makes me
quite nervous too).
>
> Hope this helps. I'm certainly not an expert, but keen to try to support
> your work on help the masses access optimised libraries.
Thanks,
David
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