Hmm, and that’s coming from Python itself, it adds a #pragma to tell the compiler to bring in python27.lib. Hmm, strange, though, that I haven’t seen this happen to my own code before–I’d assumed that the #pragma in question doesn’t get pulled in unless you are actually compiling Python code. I’ll investigate this a bit more closely.
It’s because the version of Panda is linked with Python, so you have to satisfy those dependencies. If you built a version of Panda that wasn’t linked with Python (e.g. with --no-python on the makepanda command line), then you wouldn’t need to provide Python in your own project either.
David