loading modules in debug

[Andras Balogh]

The project I'm working on is written mainly C/C++, spiced with some
Python scripts. Now, I have several dlls, which work both as a Python
extension modules, exporting functions to Python via "initmodule", and
as normal dynamic libraries, to which I link dynamically from within my
C program.

The problem is that, in debug mode, Python expects every module name to
be postfixed with _d, which makes my dynamic loading (using LoadLibrary)
not work, unless I #ifdef it everywhere, and append _d to the dlls
myself. I could do this, but I don't really like the idea. I'd be happy
to use the release python interpreter in debug mode too, but the python
header automatically pulls in the debug version.

Any ideas/suggestions what could I do?

thanks,
Andras

[greg.landrum]

[I haven't seen an answer for this older question, so I figured I'd go
ahead and post one]

Andras Balogh wrote:

The problem is that, in debug mode, Python expects every module name to
be postfixed with _d, which makes my dynamic loading (using LoadLibrary)
not work, unless I #ifdef it everywhere, and append _d to the dlls
myself. I could do this, but I don't really like the idea. I'd be happy
to use the release python interpreter in debug mode too, but the python
header automatically pulls in the debug version.

Any ideas/suggestions what could I do?

The easiest way to avoid this behavior on Windows is to replace the
code where you #include <Python.h> with something like this:

#ifdef _DEBUG
#undef _DEBUG
#include <Python.h>
#define _DEBUG
#else
#include <Python.h>
#endif

This should cause Python to stop looking for the _d named dlls.

-greg