Joakim Karlsson added the comment:
After running a windows update I finally have a working Python 3.5.1
installation. Updates weren't done automatically on this box, so I was a bit
behind.
I wish I knew which update fixed this, and I'm sorry to add to any confusion
regarding
Joakim Karlsson added the comment:
...and I seem not to have a working installation even when installing for a
single user. The installation completes without complaining, but running python
ends up in an error message telling me that "api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll" i
Joakim Karlsson added the comment:
My previous fix works for me when I install for current user only. When I
attempt to install for all users, I get an error stating that
"api-ms-win-crt-runtime-I1-1-0.dll" is missing during the "Precompililng
standard
Joakim Karlsson added the comment:
I got this working on a Windows 8.1 box with the following mess. Hopefully
someone more capable than me can piece together a viable fix from this.
I downloaded and executed the Visual C++ Redistributable for VS 2015 here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us
Joakim Karlsson added the comment:
Sounds reasonable.
It would also require that all third party packages supply a "*_d.pyd" version
of any extensions.
Does setuptools and pip have any support for automatically creating debug
versions of extensions with the correct naming s
Joakim Karlsson added the comment:
A complicating factor is that the debug and release versions of the dll:s seem
to behave differently, which makes it hard to replace one with the other.
For instance, in dynload_win.c, the suffix of files looked for are "_d.pyd" in
debug mode and
Joakim Karlsson added the comment:
You shouldn't mix headers with and without the _DEBUG symbol defined. At least
on some versions of MSVC this can lead to errors as some standard headers start
referencing functions that are not available in both debug and release versions
of the
New submission from Joakim Karlsson:
When I embed Python 3.4 in an existing app, I run in to a few issues when our
app is built in debug mode. I build against the headers, libs and dlls that I
get when installing python, I don't build python myself.
1. When I include python.h it will
