Re: [Boost-build] How to specify location of boost_python-vc90-mt-gd-1_38.dll?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to specify location of boost_python-vc90-mt-gd-1_38.dll?
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-09 04:17:36

On Thursday 09 July 2009 David Roy wrote:

> 
> Many thanks Volodya, that works!
> 
> My purpose is to have this path automatically appended with no action of the
> user, and with portability on various OS. So I added the following lines to
> my script:
> 
> import os
> os.environ['path'] = os.environ['path'] + os.pathsep + "C:/Program
> Files/boost/boost_1_38/bin.v2/libs/python/build/msvc-9.0/debug/threading-multi/"
> 
> Would you consider it the right way to do that? One advantage seems to be
> that PATH is "cleaned" from the appended directory at the end of execution.

I suspect that from inside Python, changing sys.path would be a better approach.

- Volodya