Re: [Boost-users] [boost.python] ImportError: DLL Load failed.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost.python] ImportError: DLL Load failed.
From: Germán Diago (germandiago_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-10 10:19:45

I changed the extension name from .dll to .pyd but I'll verify if I
wrote file.dll.pyd. Maybe. Thanks for your time

2009/4/10 Nat Goodspeed <nat_at_[hidden]>:
> Germán Diago wrote:
>
>> Hello. I compiled a python module with msvc for python2.6 under windows
>> xp.
>> Under linux everything's ok, but under windows xp, I don't know what
>> happens, I get
>> an ImportError: DLL Load failed.
>>
>> I set sys.path to the directory containing the module, but no luck
>> until now. Is it a
>> problem with boost.python. I don't know what to think. Thanks for your
>> help.
>
> Does your module's name end with .dll or with .pyd?
>
> From "What's New in Python 2.5":
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.4/whatsnew/ports.html#SECTION0001510000000000000000
>
> "Windows: .dll is no longer supported as a filename extension for extension
> modules. .pyd is now the only filename extension that will be searched for."
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