Johan, Have you read the porting notes for 3.8? There's a change to how libraries on Windows are loaded. You will likely need to use the new `os.add_dll_directory()` function. https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#bpo-36085-whatsnew Regards, James On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 10:09, Johann Rohwer <jr@sun.ac.za> wrote:

Hi all

First of all, my apologies if this is not the right place for this query, if so, please direct me to a more appropriate forum.

We have developed a Python package for computational systems biology that wraps two Fortran extension modules: https://github.com/PySCeS/pysces

For the distribution of binary wheels under Windows I've been compiling the Fortran extension modules with MinGWin and using MSVC++ compiler to compile the Python extension, as implimented in numpy distutils and explained in detail in this blog post: https://pav.iki.fi/blog/2017-10-08/pywingfortran.html

This has been working fine for previous versions of Python (3.6 and 3.7), but under Python 3.8 the DLL won't load, I get the following error message when trying to import the package:

DLL load failed while importing pitcon: The specified module could not be found. INFO: Pitcon import failed: continuation not available DLL load failed while importing nleq2: The specified module could not be found. INFO: NLEQ2 import failed: option not available

This is using Python 3.8.1 downloaded from python.org under Windows 10 64-bit, also using 64-bit MinGWin.

When building the package under Python 3.8, the compile runs without error and the DLL files get packaged in the .libs folder beneath the top-level package folder, as for the other Python versions. Only problem is that they can't be loaded during import.

Dependencies for the build (numpy, scipy, matplotlib) are installed using pip into a clean install of the respective Python version: matplotlib 3.1.2 numpy 1.18.1 scipy 1.4.1

Has anything changed in how this is handled under Python 3.8? I'm stymied because it all works off exactly the same code base under Python 3.6 and 3.7, and moreover the compile and wheel build completes without error, also on Python 3.8.

Thanks, Johann

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