[Distutils] Dist utils library problem?

[Glenn Pierce]

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I have a question about writing a portable setup.py script for distutils.

I have a directory structure like this.

FreeImage/
   |-------Source/
   |          |------ FreeImage.h
   |
   |-------Dist/
   |          |------libfreeimage-3.7.0.so
   |          |------libfreeimage.a
   |          |------FreeImage.lib
   |          |------FreeImage.dll
   |
   |-------Wrapper/
              |---------Python/
                         |----------build/                                          
			 |----------freeimagemodule.c
                         |----------setup.py


I am wrapper a c++ library and have the library files for linux and windows 
installed under Dist/.
I want to create a setup file that works on both unix and Windows but I 
am having trouble with windows.
My setup.py file is like the following:

from distutils.core import setup, Extension

ext_module = Extension('freeimagewrapper',
                    define_macros = [('MAJOR_VERSION', '3'),
                                     ('MINOR_VERSION', '7')],
                    include_dirs = ['../../Source/'],
                    library_dirs=['../../Dist/'],
                    libraries = ['FreeImage'],     
                    sources = ['freeimagemodule.c'])

setup (name = 'freeimage',
       version = '1.0',
       author = 'Glenn Pierce',
       description = 'Python wrapper for the freeimage library',
       ext_modules = [ext_module])


I am getting link errors.
Visual studio can find ../../Dist/FreeImage.lib
but I don't think it can find FreeImage.dll

The errors are like:

Creating library build\temp.win32-2.4\Release\freeimagewrapper.lib and 
object
build\temp.win32-2.4\Release\freeimagewrapper.exp
freeimagemodule.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
_FreeImage_Unload referenced in function _destroy


Where should I be placing the FreeImage.dll file ?

I have read the distutils guide but wasn't clear on the library section 
for ext modules.

Thanks for any help.


Glenn