It is indeed a pain. I would really like a work-around. Matplotlib is supposed to be immune to this nowadays but it's not. Nor are some other third-party modules. Did they break with the new release? (2.6.3?) -nick
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:12 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Nick Touran wrote: > > Copying my local copy of Python 2.6 to a Windows HPC 2008 system is > giving > > dll side-by-side configuration errors for some third-party packages > > (matplotlib, pyMSSQL, in particular). I understand that there is a > tradition > > of Python supporting XCOPY deployment, and would really like to be able > to > > just copy my C:\python26 folder to the network drive and have it run on > the > > server. > > > > I got around a related issue (http://bugs.python.org/issue4566) just by > > upgrading to 2.6.3 and was able to import socket and mpi4py and > everything, > > except matplotlib and pyMSSQL, that is. > > > > I also understand that if I were to install the MS Visual Studio 2008 > > redistribution package on the server that everything would be fine > because > > the modules just can't find the proper C run-time DLL. The problem with > that > > is two-fold: I don't have admin rights on the machine and there are over > > 1000 machines on the cluster and I don't think the admin is going to > install > > that on all of them. > > > > So is there any way to set an environmental variable or something to get > > these packages to know where to find the proper msvcr90.dll, akin to > setting > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Linux? Is there another solution? > > I assume this is related to this new problem: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue4120 > > Manifests were meant to solve some of the DLL mess... apparently they > cause even more grief. > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com > > Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 08 2009) > >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ > >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ > >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: > > > eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 > D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg > Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 > http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ >
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