Extension with MinGW

[Gerhard Häring]

Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory at npl.co.uk> wrote:

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> 
> Thanks for the suggestions. The link to DLL2DEF is dead - but I've got
> pexports, and that seems to work.
> 
> Distutils seems to work very nicely - it will even call SWIG first if
> I give the filename as the interface file pysimple.i
> 
> But I still get the error message
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
> Does the mingw-compiled DLL try to load another DLL?

Normally not. But you can use the free Dependency Walker tool
(http://www.dependencywalker.com/) to verify that.
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