The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
On Windows, when import fails to load a dll module, the message says
"error code 193" instead of a more informative text.
It turns out that FormatMessage needs additional parameters for some error codes.
For example: 193 means "%1 is not a valid Win32 application".
Since it is impossible to know which parameter to pass, we use
FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS to get the raw message, which is still better
than the number.
table' of the dll, to make sure that the dll really was build for the
correct Python version. It does this by looking for an entry
'pythonXY.dll' (X.Y is the Python version number).
The code now checks the size of the dll's import table before reading
entries from it. Before this patch, the code crashed trying to read
the import table when the size was zero (as in Win2k's wmi.dll, for
example).
Look for imports of 'pythonXY_d.dll' in a debug build instead of
'pythonXY.dll'.
Fixes SF 951851: Crash when reading "import table" of certain windows dlls.
Already backported to the 2.3 branch.
* in import.c, #ifdef out references to dynamic loading based on
HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING
* clean out the platform-specific crud from importdl.c.
[ maybe fold this function into import.c and drop the importdl.c file? Greg.]
* change GetDynLoadFunc's "funcname" parameter to "shortname". change
"name" to "fqname" for clarification.
* each GetDynLoadFunc now creates its own funcname value.
WARNING: as I mentioned previously, we may run into an issue with a
missing "_" on some platforms. Testing will show this pretty quickly,
however.
* move pathname munging into dynload_shlib.c
file per platform (really: per style of Dl API; e.g. all platforms
using dlopen() are grouped together in dynload_shlib.c.).
This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.
Antoine Pitrou
Mark Hammond
Christian Heimes
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Kristján Valur Jónsson
Martin v. Löwis
Thomas Heller
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton
Marc-André Lemburg
Guido van Rossum