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python38.dll is not found - zplutor - 2023-03-18
Hi, I'm developing an add-on which depends on an addition module "cryptography". I've got an error message during the add-on initialization: "ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _rust: the specified module could not be found."
With the help of ProcessMonitor, I have found out the missing DLL is "python38.dll", which is the last DLL kodi.exe tried to load and failed during the add-on initialization. I have checked kodi's installation directory and could not found "python38.dll" but only "python3.8.dll". I'm a newbie to python, I totally have no idea what is the difference between "pythong38.dll" and "python3.8.dll".
Could someone please tell me how to resolve the issue? Thanks.
RE: python38.dll is not found - DarrenHill - 2023-03-18
Thread moved to addon development
RE: python38.dll is not found - scott967 - 2023-03-23
How did you build cryptography? From the docs I read "Cryptography ships statically-linked wheels for macOS, Windows, and Linux". I'm thinking that's not going to work on kodi.
scott s.
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RE: python38.dll is not found - zplutor - 2023-03-23
I didn't build cryptography. I dowloaded its wheel (as well as its dependencies' wheels) with such a command "pip3 download cryptography --platform=x86_amd64 --no-deps", unzipped the wheels and placed them into the add-on directory.