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

[David Abrahams]

Here's a final (?) development on the issue from the C++-sig...

From: "Achim Domma" <achim.domma@syynx.de>
> > From: c++-sig-admin@python.org [mailto:c++-sig-admin@python.org]On
> > Behalf Of David Abrahams
> > Those in turn depend on (transitive closure):
> >
> ...
> > SHLWAPI.DLL
> ...
>
> Shlwapi.dll is the problem. The newest version of this dll introduces the
> dependency to apphelp.dll, which should be no problem due to delayed
> loading. I still don't know why an extension 'activates' the dependency
to
> apphelp.dll, but it's definitively a configuration problem of my system.
So
> it is a microsoft problem and I will try it in their newsgroups.
>
> thanks for you help
> Achim

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From: "Tim Peters" <tim.one@comcast.net>
> [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.
>
>