[New-bugs-announce] [issue31172] Py_Main() is totally broken on Visual Studio 2017
Patrick Rutkowski
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Aug 10 03:23:51 EDT 2017
New submission from Patrick Rutkowski:
Install Visual Studio 2017
Download and unpack Python-3.6.2.tgz
Open a Visual Studio command prompt
Browse to Python-3.6.2\PCBuild
Run build.bat -p x64 -c Release
Run build.bat -p x64 -c Debug
Add the PCbuild\amd64 directory to your PATH
Create a new Visual Studio Win32 GUI project called mypythonw
Copy-paste the source code of Python-3.6.2\PCBuild\WinMain.c into your mypthonw project.
Add Python-3.6.2\Include and Python-3.6.2\PC to mypythonw's include path.
Add Python-3.6.2\PCbuild\amd64 to mypythonw's library search path
Build mypthonw
Run these two commands:
pythonw -c "import ctypes; ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Hello World!', 'Hello', 0)
mypythonw -c "import ctypes; ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Hello World!', 'Hello', 0)
The first will show a message box, while the second will show nothing. You won't get an error message or a debugger from mypythonw.exe. It'll just silently do nothing.
There must be something in the configuration of pythonw.vcxproj that is necessary for Python embedding to work, and which makes it work in pythonw but fail in mypythonw. The two projects are executing the exact same C code, but one works and the other doesn't. What's going on here?
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messages: 300055
nosy: rutski
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Py_Main() is totally broken on Visual Studio 2017
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