[Python-Dev] Windows XP dependency in Python release?

[Tim Peters]

[avid Abrahams]
> The summary is that python22.dll seems to have been built so that it
> depends on a DLL which only comes with Windows XP, though it strangely
> doesn't cause a problem until loading an extension module.

The python22.dll distributed by PythonLabs was built on a Win98SE box.  It
doesn't depend on apphelp.dll.  I've never been on an XP box, and there is
no apphelp.dll on any machine I do use.  Here are the system DLLs it does
depend on:

ADVAPI32.DLL
KERNEL32.DLL
USER32.DLL
MSVCRT.DLL
SHELL32.DLL

Those in turn depend on (transitive closure):

COMCTL32.DLL
GDI32.DLL
NTDLL.DLL
RPCRT4.DLL
SHLWAPI.DLL

That's it.