bpo-25655: Improve Win DLL loading failures doc by pombredanne · Pull Request #22372

bpo-25655: Improve Win DLL loading failures doc by pombredanne · Pull Request #22372 · python/cpython

https://bugs.python.org/issue25655

Add documentation to help diagnose CDLL dependent DLL loading errors
on windows for OSError with message:
"[WinError 126] The specified module could not be found"
This error is otherwise difficult to diagnose.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>

Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>

Exception references are made with exc and not class

Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>

Co-authored-by: Dong-hee Na <donghee.na92@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>

Reported-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>

Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request

Oct 22, 2020

Add documentation to help diagnose CDLL dependent DLL loading errors
on windows for OSError with message:
"[WinError 126] The specified module could not be found"
This error is otherwise difficult to diagnose.
(cherry picked from commit b6f2fc9)

Co-authored-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@gmail.com>

miss-islington pushed a commit to miss-islington/cpython that referenced this pull request

Oct 22, 2020

Add documentation to help diagnose CDLL dependent DLL loading errors
on windows for OSError with message:
"[WinError 126] The specified module could not be found"
This error is otherwise difficult to diagnose.
(cherry picked from commit b6f2fc9)

Co-authored-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@gmail.com>

miss-islington added a commit that referenced this pull request

Oct 22, 2020

Add documentation to help diagnose CDLL dependent DLL loading errors
on windows for OSError with message:
"[WinError 126] The specified module could not be found"
This error is otherwise difficult to diagnose.
(cherry picked from commit b6f2fc9)

Co-authored-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@gmail.com>

miss-islington added a commit that referenced this pull request

Oct 22, 2020

Add documentation to help diagnose CDLL dependent DLL loading errors
on windows for OSError with message:
"[WinError 126] The specified module could not be found"
This error is otherwise difficult to diagnose.
(cherry picked from commit b6f2fc9)

Co-authored-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@gmail.com>

adorilson pushed a commit to adorilson/cpython that referenced this pull request

Mar 13, 2021

Add documentation to help diagnose CDLL dependent DLL loading errors
on windows for OSError with message:
"[WinError 126] The specified module could not be found"
This error is otherwise difficult to diagnose.