Missing python23_d.lib in Windows Python 2.3

[Partho Bhowmick]

I am building extension modules for Python 2.3 under Windows using MS Visual
Studio .Net 2003.
In the debug build, there is a pragma statement in <pyconfig.h> that causes
a link to the lib python23_d.lib
This library does not exist.
Am I missing something or is the installation missing something?

 

[Harri Pesonen]

I am building extension modules for Python 2.3 under Windows using MS Visual
Studio .Net 2003.
In the debug build, there is a pragma statement in <pyconfig.h> that causes
a link to the lib python23_d.lib
This library does not exist.
Am I missing something or is the installation missing something?

The standard distribution does not come with a debug version of that
library.

You can get around it by doing:

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

Ugly but it works.

Harri