embedding Pyd in Windows program

[Matt via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 01:40:34 UTC, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 03/11/2015 07:59 PM, Matt wrote:
>>
>> Right, copying site.py into my program's working dir sorts out 
>> the
>> missing module error, but I now get a syntax error:
>>
>>     file=sys.stderr)
>>         ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>> Error executing command run: Program exited with code 1
>>
>> I googled this, and apparently it's caused by an older 
>> interpreter. The
>> only files I have transferred over are:
>>   python3.DLL
>>   python3.LIB
>>   python34.LIB
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong, or how 
>> I can fix
>> this?
>
> I'm guessing your python path is screwed up. In your embedded 
> python,
>
> import sys
> print (sys.path)
>
> make sure everything is pointing where it should.
>
> Failing that,
>
> are you using the correct dub configuration? without checking, 
> I believe it defaults to python 2.7.
>
> Failing that,
>
> you transferred python3.dll from somewhere to somewhere? I 
> believe pyd links to \windows\system32\python3.dll or some 
> such. At least, I think that's where those lib files point to. 
> not sure. If that is an issue and you want to use your own lib 
> files, you will need to generate OMF files from them.

I used the "~>0.9.4" branch in dub, and I'm not sure how to 
change "configuration". Do you mean I should be using "~master" 
or "~develop"?

as for the transferring the python3.dll, I downloaded and 
installed a fresh copy of the latest Python build, version 3.4, 
and copied the libraries from there. Even so, I had to add 
PYD_PACKAGE_DIR manually to get it to work.

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to run the python snippet you 
sent, since my program, which currently opens a window for three 
seconds before closing again, doesn't even get that far, and 
chokes when I run py_init().