New submission from Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com>:
I am writing a small application using the embedded distribution to run a script supplied by the user. The requirements are very simple, so all I need to do is set up argv and call Py_Main. I'm trying to load the Py_Main function dynamically (for flexibility - see below) but GetProcAddress returns 0 when loading the function from python3.dll (the stable ABI). This seems to be because the symbols in python3.dll are special "fowarding" symbols, that GetProcAddress can't handle. Is there a way to dynamically load the Python API from the stable ABI? If there isn't currently, could one be added? To explain my requirements in a bit more detail, I don't want to statically link, because I want to put the Python distribution in a subdirectory, so that it isn't visible on PATH along with my executable, but I'd rather avoid the complexities involved in adding a dedicated SxS manifest to point the loader to the correct subdirectory for the python3.dll. Furthermore, I want to provide a graceful fallback if the Python distribution is missing (initially, just a friendly error message, but in future maybe locating an alternative Python installation to use) and static linking won't allow that as I can't recover control if the expected Python DLL isn't present. The reason I want to use the stable ABI is so that I can upgrade the embedded distribution without needing to rebuild the C code. I could search for python3X.dll, and just ignore the stable ABI. But that's more filesystem code than I really want to write in C... And honestly, I feel that dynamically linking is a perfect use case for the stable ABI, so it really should be supported. ---------- components: Windows messages: 385621 nosy: paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Unable to dynamically load functions from python3.dll type: behavior versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43022> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
