[Numpy-discussion] Is anyone knowledgeable about dll deployment on windows ?

[Eloi Gaudry]

I've done so, thanks for pointing the discussion.

In the meantime, I've just patched distutils/msvc9compiler.py so that it 
neither embed nor create a manifest assembly. This way, I'll be sure 
that the assembly information would be fetched from the main python (or 
python-based) binaries (i.e. pythonX.dll). That may be a very strong 
prerequisites in some cases, but never in my very particular case.

Eloi

Christoph Gohlke wrote:
> The most popular/simple way to deal with the VC90.CRT dependency issue 
> is to have the user install the runtime redistributable on their system. 
> If you don't want to put that burden on the user, which I understand, 
> you have to make adjustments to the assembly manifests. This is not 
> unofficial or unsupported. It is a bug in Python that it embeds the 
> assemblyIdentity for VC90.CRT in all extensions build with 
> distutils/msvc9compiler.py. In fact, the *.pyd distributed with Python 
> 2.6.3+ don't have that problem. Maybe you can raise your concerns about 
> future compatibility at <http://bugs.python.org/issue4120>.
>
> Christoph
>
> On 11/30/2009 1:11 AM, Eloi Gaudry wrote:
>   
>> Christoph, thanks for pointing this discussion. That's a perfect match.
>>
>> If the workaround provided offers a solution to the current
>> redistribution issue, I'm wondering if it will still be the case when an
>> update to the assembly check function will be activated/implemented
>> (within Windows).
>> The manifest edition (removing the "assemblyIdentity" tag) doesn't seem
>> to be a popular/official/supported way of dealing with the whole runtime
>> libraries issue. Don't you think ?
>>     
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