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List:       cmake
Subject:    Re: [CMake] new rpath support
From:       Brad King <brad.king () kitware ! com>
Date:       2006-02-27 16:48:51
Message-ID: 44032D73.7090801 () kitware ! com
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Zachary Pincus wrote:
>> The solution on Windows is just to put the runtime DLLs in the same  
>> directory as the modules that need them.
> 
> Is this the case even if the modules aren't in the same directory as  
> the python executable? The python executable will be in one place,  and 
> the python module dlls will be in another, and the runtime dll  will be 
> in the same directory as the modules. The windows loader will  then know 
> to find the runtime in the directory that the modules are in?

When a module is loaded dynamically Windows will look in the directory 
containing the module for its runtime DLLs.  The location of the python 
executable does not matter in this case.

-Brad

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