Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!news.cgarbs.de!news.addix.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: "Martin v. Loewis" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: minimal python27.dll? Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 14:49:13 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4DBD56C9.6070300@v.loewis.de> References: <4DB8774C.9080400@v.loewis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: port-92-206-127-233.dynamic.qsc.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: online.de 1304254153 8886 92.206.127.233 (1 May 2011 12:49:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 12:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: python-list@python.org To: Ryan Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110402 Icedove/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:4389 > I have vague recollections that pythonXY.dll could not be statically > linked on Windows, or that doing so causes some serious loss of > functionality. Was this ever true, and is it still? You'll have to rebuild Python to make use of static linkage, of course, but then: it is certainly possible. The main functionality that you lose is the ability to load extension modules (.pyd files). Whether that's a serious loss or not depends on your application - in cases where you want static linkage, you can often accept not being able to do dynamic linkage. Regards, Martin