i've got a python extension that is simply a wrapping around another C library. (not an uncommon case :]) i cannot figure out the 'right' way to check for and link/include this dependency into my distutils setup.py script. under linux, it's pretty easy to assume the correct header and shared library will be somewhere in the standard include and library directories /usr/local/include, /usr/local/lib, etc my main concern is getting it working with windows (and keeping it crossplatform happy for linux). my best bet in windows seems to be walk around the parent directory tree trying to find directories for the dependency?? if that is the best way, it would probably be nice for the linux version to use this method or look in the standard compiler directories ??????? i'm hoping someone out there has an example doing just this sort of stuff i could look at. the documentation doesn't mention anything about this sort of stuff. (except for adding library and include info to the Extensions() call thanks for any help and/or guidance. the distutils have just amazed me. (please help, i couldn't get any responses on c.l.python)