[Distutils] Including DLLs in binary distributions

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:02:16 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:22:41 -0400, "P.J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> 
> [snip]
>>
>>Use package_data instead; it should do the right thing with both distutils 
>>and setuptools.  (It is available in the distutils as of Python 2.4; for 
>>2.3 you'd have to use setuptools.)
>
>Can package_data include files which aren't in the source tree?  I naively
>tried
>    package_data = {
>        'OpenSSL': ['C:/OpenSSL/ssleay32.dll',
>                    'C:/OpenSSL/libeay32.dll']}
>

Hmm.  Actually, I then tried various other spellings, using only relative
paths, and was unable to get these DLLs into the egg using any of them.  I
wonder if I am missing something fundamental about how package_data is
interpreted.

A couple other values I tried:

  package_data = {'': ['ssleay32.dll', 'libeay32.dll']}

  package_data = {'OpenSSL': ['ssleay32.dll', 'libeay32.dll']}

Any tips?

Thanks,

Jean-Paul