[Python-Dev] Static builds on Windows (continued) (original) (raw)

Marvin marvinpublic at comcast.net
Wed Oct 5 00:05:20 CEST 2005

Earlier references: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/046499.html

I want to be able to create a version of python24.lib that is a static library, suitable for creating a python.exe or other .exe using python's api.

So I did as the earlier poster suggested, using 2.4.1 sources. I modified the PCBuild/pythoncore and python .vcproj files as follows:

General/ ConfigurationType/ Static library (was dynamic in pythoncore) c/C++ Code Generation RT Library /MT (was /MTD for mt DLL) c/c++/Precompiled/ Not Using Precompiled headers (based on some MSDN hints) librarian OutputFile .//python24.lib Preprocessor: added Py_NO_ENABLED_SHARED. Removed USE_DL_IMPORT

I built pythoncore and python. The resulting python.exe worked fine, but did indeed fail when I tried to dynamically load anything (Dialog said: the application terminated abnormally)

Now I am not very clueful about the dllimport/dllexport business. But it seems that I should be able to link MY program against a .lib somehow (a real lib), and let the .EXE export the symbols somehow.

My first guess is to try to use /MTD, use Py_NO_ENABLE_SHARED when building python24.lib, but then use PY_ENABLE_SHARED when compiling the python.c. I'll try that later, but anyone have more insight into the right way to do this?

marvin

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