[Python-Dev] Freeze and shared modules (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
02 Apr 2002 19:43:36 +0200

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

Does anyone know which compiler/linker options have to be specified to make frozen Python interpreters correctly import shared modules ?

LINKFORSHARED should be the right set of options.

Many of the mxCGIPython are running into this problem (the default settings in Python or freeze seem to be wrong on this account) and it got even worse with Python 2.2 where even the standard modules are built shared rather than statically linked.

Yes, building all extension modules as shared libraries is evil for freezing applications. I wish Linux distributors would recognize this and write proper Setup files, instead of relying on the default mechanism.

Regards, Martin