Am 30.01.2014 14:23, schrieb Paul Moore:
First of all, it is not possible to load a DLL into a process' memory
[2, 3] unless it is stored as a file in the filesystem.
[...]
[2] I'm talking from a Windows perspective here. I do not have
sufficient low-level knowledge of Unix to comment on that case. I
suspect that the issues are similar but I defer to the platform
experts.
[3] There is, I believe, code "out there" on the internet to map a DLL
image into a process based purely in memory, but I think it's a fairly
gross hack. I have a suspicion that someone - possibly Thomas Heller -
experimented with it at one time, but never came up with a viable
implementation. There's also TCL's tclkit technology, which *may*
support binary extensions, and may be worth a look, but TCL has
virtual filesystem support built in quite deep in the core, so how it
works may not be applicable to Python.
Well, py2exe uses code that loads dlls from zip-files directly into
process memory and executes it. This is used for 'single-file'
applications that py2exe creates; it is triggered by the appropriate
'bundle_files' option.
It works quite well for some applications (wx apps for example), but
not for others.
Applications that use numpy for example crashes, but the reason is
that py2exe *also* puts the mkl-library (or maybe even more stuff like
windows dlls) that numpy needs into the zip.
So, the trick is to only load python-extensions and not arbitrary
dlls from the zip.
Changing the packing process so that py2exe leave these
non-python dlls in the file system makes the exe work again. At least
now the range of apps that work reliably is much larger.
Anyway; the py2exe installer installs the python-extension and
correspinding py-module that implements this magic, so anyone can
experiment with it; it is called 'zipextimporter.py'.
Here's the start of the docstring:
r"""zipextimporter - an importer which can import extension modules from
zipfiles
This file and also _memimporter.pyd is part of the py2exe package.
Overview
========
zipextimporter.py contains the ZipExtImporter class which allows to
load Python binary extension modules contained in a zip.archive,
without unpacking them to the file system.
Call the zipextimporter.install() function to install the import hook,
add a zip-file containing .pyd or .dll extension modules to sys.path,
and import them.
It uses the _memimporter extension which uses code from Joachim
Bauch's MemoryModule library. This library emulates the win32 api
function LoadLibrary.
"""
I wanted to post this to clarify the current state.
Thomas
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