[Distutils] Wheels and dependent third party dlls on windows

[Paul Moore]

On 30 September 2014 14:32, David Genest <david.genest at ubisoft.com> wrote:
> But the only way to get a dependent dll found on windows is to have it on PATH, and the scripts directory on
> windows is on path when a virtualenv is activated.

This is not true. Python loads DLLs with
LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH, to allow them to be located alongside
the pyd file. You should therefore be able to ship the dependent dll
in the package directory (which wheels support fine).

Paul