I'm trying to embed Python 2.3.5 into a C++ application on Windows XP. When I build my app with debug symbols and link to a debug build of Python, then my program seems to crash most (but not all) of the time. Sometimes it crashes on startup, and sometimes at exit, sometimes not at all. I haven't seen it crash with non-debug builds of my app and Python. The release build runs my Python test code just fine. When the debug build doesn't crash at startup, it gets through some, but not all of my test code. It still crashes even if I only run Py_Intialize() and Py_Finalize(). My app is multithreaded, but Python only runs in the main thread.
I use Visual Studio .NET 2003 7.1. If I understand things correctly, that means I need to recompile Python, since the prebuilt binaries are compiled with MSVC 6. I've compiled both debug and non-debug versions of Python. I'm sure that I'm linking my app to the correct build type. I'm also pretty sure that I'm setting the PYTHONHOME environment variable correctly so that my app is trying to use the right Python runtime. Windows has a trick where, if my app's executable is called app.exe, then the presence of a file called app.exe.local in the same directory will force my app to use local copies of DLLs first. I've used that, so I'm pretty sure I'm not accidentally using the wrong DLLs at runtime. I've googled and couldn't find any similar problems. Is there something simple I'm forgetting to do? I'm out of ideas. Does anybody have any ideas about how to attack this problem? Thanks, Adam Tomjack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
