[Distutils] Wheels and dependent third party dlls on windows

David Genest david.genest at ubisoft.com
Tue Sep 30 16:31:55 CEST 2014


> 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

Ok, so what if the dll is shared in a given environment (multiple extensions use it)?,  the shared dll should be copied to every package? Won't that cause multiple loads by the system?

Thanks for your response,

D.





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