On 07/05/2010 04:35 PM, Bill Davy wrote: > I am struggling :-( smile!
> > I have used SWIG to build a module called SHIP. So I have a directory > containing SHIP.py and _SHIP.pyd, as follows: > > [ ...] > > Python appears to find H:\Viper\HostPC\V1\SHIP\Release\_SHIP.pyd but for > some reason, which I cannot fathom, says "DLL load failed". > Maybe it doesn't mean _SHIP.pyd, but another DLL: maybe _SHIP.pyd depends on some other DLL? Since you used SWIG, I'm guessing that you're wrapping some other library. Maybe that's what it can't find. > > > Can anyone offer me any suggestion where I am going wrong or how to tackle > this problem? > > > > Could it be that the Python 2.6 I am running did not use the same compiler > (VC6) with which I buiult _SHIP.pyd and if so, is there a way round this > without moving on from VC6? > Shouldn't be a problem, as long as the calling convention hasn't change, which it hasn't. If you're on a 64-bit system there might be a problem there with Python and some DLLs being built for different architectures? Cheers, Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
