Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-19 Thread Fred Pacquier
"Mark Tolonen" said : > Yes, welcome to Microsoft's solution to DLL Hell...Side-by-Side DLL > Hell. As always, it boils down to a philosophical choice : is it better to suffer through Hell alone, or in bad company ? :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-18 Thread Mark Tolonen
"Fred Pacquier" wrote in message news:xns9ca8b91a1519apacmanr...@212.27.60.38... After installing the MS redistributable DLL package -- actually I had to install *three* before hitting the right one (2005SP1) -- libpyexiv2 finally loads all its dependencies. Of course I've still no idea why/

Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-18 Thread Fred Pacquier
Fred P said : > Hi, a bit of platform-specific advice sought here... I'm trying to > diagnose one of those mysteries Windows is so fond of... > Say that I have code that imports some binary Python module from site- > packages (in this case, libpyexiv2.pyd through pyexiv2.py, could be > anythng els

Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-17 Thread Fred Pacquier
"Mark Tolonen" said : > That error message is returned from executables built with later > versions of Visual Studio (at least 2005 and 2008...not sure about > 2003). The Windows application event log will indicate what DLL is > missing. > > In addition to tools others have noted, depends.exe

Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-16 Thread Mark Tolonen
"Fred P" wrote in message news:xns9ca5e52bec783pacmanr...@212.27.60.39... Hi, a bit of platform-specific advice sought here... I'm trying to diagnose one of those mysteries Windows is so fond of... Say that I have code that imports some binary Python module from site- packages (in this case,

Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-16 Thread Fred Pacquier
Christian Heimes said : > Fred P wrote: >> Is there any tool and/or methodology I could use to at least pinpoint >> the exact DLL that libpyexiv2 is failing to load, and ideally also >> the reason why ?... > > The depencency walker http://www.dependencywalker.com/ works fine for > me. I'd neve

Re: Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-15 Thread Christian Heimes
Fred P wrote: > Is there any tool and/or methodology I could use to at least pinpoint the > exact DLL that libpyexiv2 is failing to load, and ideally also the reason > why ?... The depencency walker http://www.dependencywalker.com/ works fine for me. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Tracking down DLL load errors in Windows ?

2009-10-15 Thread Fred P
Hi, a bit of platform-specific advice sought here... I'm trying to diagnose one of those mysteries Windows is so fond of... Say that I have code that imports some binary Python module from site- packages (in this case, libpyexiv2.pyd through pyexiv2.py, could be anythng else). On three Windows