Problems importing _sre w/VC7-compiled Python 2.1

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Andrew MacIntyre wrote:

...

> > I had been under the impression that sre was intended to always be built
> > into the Python core (ie not as a loadable extension module), which might
> > explain some of what you found.
>
> SRE builds just fine as a DLL, and uses a DL_EXPORT statement
> to make sure it exports the right stuff.  this works perfectly fine
> under VC5 and VC6.

I'm more than happy to take your word for it, but this contradicts the
essence of notes in Modules/Setup.dist (from where I got my impression).

Do you expect it should also work as a Unix shared object?  I note that
the default "./configure; make" results in _sre being built into the
python library on FreeBSD boxen.

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