Hi I have a question about writing a portable setup.py script for distutils.
I have a directory structure like this. FreeImage/ |----------Source/ | |------ FreeImage.h | |----------Dist/ | |------FreeImage.lib | |------FreeImage.dll | |----------Wrapper/ |---------Python/ |----------build/ | |----------freeimagemodule.c |----------setup.py I want to create a setup file that works on both unix and Windows but I am having trouble with windows. My setup.py file is like the following: from distutils.core import setup, Extension ext_module = Extension('freeimagewrapper', define_macros = [('MAJOR_VERSION', '3'), ('MINOR_VERSION', '7')], include_dirs = ['../../Source/'], library_dirs=['../../Dist/'], libraries = ['FreeImage'], sources = ['freeimagemodule.c']) setup (name = 'freeimage', version = '1.0', author = 'Glenn Pierce', description = 'Python wrapper for the freeimage library', ext_modules = [ext_module]) I am getting link errors as vs can't seem to find ../../Dist/FreeImage.lib The output is running build running build_ext building 'freeimagewrapper' extension C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\link.exe /DLL /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LIBPATH:../../Dist/ "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files\Python24\libs" "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files\Python24\PCBuild" FreeImage.lib /EXPORT:initfreeimage wrapper build\temp.win32-2.4\Release\freeimagemodule.obj /OUT:build\lib.win32-2. 4\freeimagewrapper.pyd /IMPLIB:build\temp.win32-2.4\Release\freeimagewrapper.lib The errors are like Creating library build\temp.win32-2.4\Release\freeimagewrapper.lib and object build\temp.win32-2.4\Release\freeimagewrapper.exp freeimagemodule.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _FreeImage_Unloa d referenced in function _destroy Also I guess when the python module is installed it will still need to find FreeImage.dll in a libray path searched by the system or will distutils place the actual dll and lib files where thay can be found ? I have read the distutils guide but wasn't clear on the library section for ext modules. Thanks for any help. Glenn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list