windows side-by-side configuration woes on windows HPC

[Nick Touran]

It is indeed a pain. I would really like a work-around. Matplotlib is
supposed to be immune to this nowadays but it's not. Nor are some other
third-party modules. Did they break with the new release? (2.6.3?)
-nick

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:12 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> Nick Touran wrote:
> > Copying my local copy of Python 2.6 to a Windows HPC 2008 system is
> giving
> > dll side-by-side configuration errors for some third-party packages
> > (matplotlib, pyMSSQL, in particular). I understand that there is a
> tradition
> > of Python supporting XCOPY deployment, and would really like to be able
> to
> > just copy my C:\python26 folder to the network drive and have it run on
> the
> > server.
> >
> > I got around a related issue (http://bugs.python.org/issue4566) just by
> > upgrading to 2.6.3 and was able to import socket and mpi4py and
> everything,
> > except matplotlib and pyMSSQL, that is.
> >
> > I also understand that if I were to install the MS Visual Studio 2008
> > redistribution package on the server that everything would be fine
> because
> > the modules just can't find the proper C run-time DLL. The problem with
> that
> > is two-fold: I don't have admin rights on the machine and there are over
> > 1000 machines on the cluster and I don't think the admin is going to
> install
> > that on all of them.
> >
> > So is there any way to set an environmental variable or something to get
> > these packages to know where to find the proper msvcr90.dll, akin to
> setting
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Linux? Is there another solution?
>
> I assume this is related to this new problem:
>
>        http://bugs.python.org/issue4120
>
> Manifests were meant to solve some of the DLL mess... apparently they
> cause even more grief.
>
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