Generating pythonXX_digitalmars.lib

Owned by Ariovistus
Dec 19, 2020
1 min read

When compiling with DMD on 32 bit windows, in order for linking to python.dll to work, pyd needs to be able to provide a lib file to dmd.

We manually generate these lib files because its a bit annoying, and also implib has non redistribution clause in its licensing.

  1. Get IMPLIB
    http://ftp.digitalmars.com/bup.zip

  2. run IMPLIB

    ./implib.exe python38_digitalmars.lib C:\Users\enn092\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Python38.dll