Set PYTHONHOME before loading Python, so that sys.path will be set correctly.

Already backported.

diff --git a/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c b/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
index e6e673144d171cc6eb102e15dc7a8d6778646056..eb65d4cbaf4f220a2a2d0ab5fd1e4ac8b3ebff3c 100644 (file)
--- a/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
+++ b/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
@@ -613,7 +613,13 @@ static HINSTANCE LoadPythonDll(char *fname)
        char fullpath[_MAX_PATH];
        LONG size = sizeof(fullpath);
        char subkey_name[80];
-       HINSTANCE h = LoadLibrary(fname);
+       char buffer[260 + 12];
+       HINSTANCE h;
+
+       /* make sure PYTHONHOME is set, to that sys.path is initialized correctly */
+       wsprintf(buffer, "PYTHONHOME=%s", python_dir);
+       _putenv(buffer);
+       h = LoadLibrary(fname);
        if (h)
                return h;
        wsprintf(subkey_name,