Question

These are the steps I took:

• install apache 2.2.x
• install TortoiseHg 0.7
• copy hgwebdir.cgi, hgweb.config to cgi-bin
• edit hgweb.config as appropriate
• unzip $blah\TortoiseHg\library.zip to unzip $blah\TortoiseHg\library
• sys.path.append(‘$blah\TortoiseHg\library’) at the beginning of hgwebdir.cgi
• move $blah\TortoiseHg\templates to $blah\TortoiseHg\library\templates

(Edit: I forgot to add that all these steps are laid out here.)

When I run http://localhost/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/ I can see my repository. If I try browse that repository, I’m told ‘DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.’. The last line of the walkback says ‘c:\program files\apache group\apache\cgi-bin\mercurial\osutil.pyc in __load()’.

I’ve read about people having problems with pywintypes25.dll; this lives in ‘c:\program files\tortoisehg’ and is already in my PATH.

What DLL couldn’t be found?

Answer 1

you missed the c libs of mercurial

there are 3 ways to get out of this

1. recent mercurial versions ship with pure python implementations you can find in mercurial/pure
2. compile it yourself (im not exactly sure on the steps, on any unix this just works)
3. grab win32 installer from the website
   note that i didn’t yet take a look at how those are build
   (you need a distutils based install, not a py2exe based one)