From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:11:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Set PYTHONHOME before loading Python, so that sys.path will be set correctly.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a0~2063
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8abe7bfb2f5b231a71f9bd10d2c52680c545f87a;p=python

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

Already backported.
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diff --git a/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c b/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c
index e6e673144d..eb65d4cbaf 100644
--- 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,