<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The problem is that python in the 2.x period required linking against a specific library and so you see the problem of needing to build against multiple python libraries under Windows since you never know what the user may or may not have installed.<br><br>I believe there’s 2.7 support in the repo. now – it just hasn’t made it into a release.<br><br>Windows doesn’t need python at all – that’s strictly for python bindings. I don’t believe the normal installer includes the python bindings – you have to download the SDK for that. And the SDK installer has feature selection where you can opt out of installing the python bindings. I’d just reinstall the SDK without the python bindings and you should be good to go.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> gstreamer-devel-bounces+dhoyt=hoytsoft.org@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:gstreamer-devel-bounces+dhoyt=hoytsoft.org@lists.freedesktop.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wesley J. Miller<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 11, 2011 11:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Gstreamer on Windows - Python26.dll missing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>H<span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:Consolas'>i All,</span></span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>I just attempted to install the latest gstreamer from OSSBuilds.  Install was easy enough.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Next I tried a plain old gst-launch at a command prompt.  I was told that the program can't find python26.dll.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>So I went to the python site and had the choice of downloading 2.7 or 3.?.  I wen't for 2.7.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Gst-launch still complains about Python26.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>So, first, what is the problem?  DO I reallyo need a specific release of PythonXX.dll?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Does the Windows GST really need all of Python, or just one dll?  Can I recover all that disk space I wated on Python 2.7?  I speak no Python though thanks to gstreamer examples I've read a lot of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Thanks in Advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Consolas'>Wes Miller<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE:<br><br>This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. 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