[Distutils] Distutilizing wxPython

[Greg Ward]

On 13 October 2000, Robin Dunn said:
> When you link together a DLL you also make an import library which defines
> all the exported symbols in the DLL that can be imported into other code.  I
> believe that it also defines how to find the symbol in the DLL, an offset or
> ordinal or something like that.  When you are linking code that uses the DLL
> you don't link with the DLL itself (like you do on Unix by linking with the
> .so) but with the import library instead.

Ahh, I see -- so it's not actually the *code*, just information *about*
the code.  I was stuck in a rut thinking "library means code".  That
clears it up nicely -- thanks.

        Greg