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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - "import _lldb" doesn't work on Windows with Python 3.8+"
   href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46891">46891</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>"import _lldb" doesn't work on Windows with Python 3.8+
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>lldb
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Windows NT
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>All Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>Tatyana.Krasnukha@synopsys.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>jdevlieghere@apple.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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        <pre>This happens when liblldb.dll depends on non-system libraries (e.g.
libxml2.dll).

To reproduce this issue, build LLDB with LibXML2 and run `python_d -c "import
_lldb"`.
The error will be "ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _lldb: The
specified module could not be found". Neither PATH nor PYTHONPATH makes a
difference.

Since version 3.8, Python stopped searching dlls in directories specified by
PATH.
Now such paths should be specified by calling `add_dll_directory()`
(<a href="https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html#bpo-36085-whatsnew">https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html#bpo-36085-whatsnew</a>).

Seems like the function call should be placed in bindings/python.swig right
before importing _lldb, however, I don't see a way to determine paths to
dependencies there.</pre>
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