Mark Hammond added the comment:

> > The directory of the DLL can be added to the search path if you
> > use LoadLibraryEx with the flag LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH and use an 
> > absolute path. 

> That sounds like the better fix then. I thought there was something along 
> those lines available.

That does work. I didn't do it that way initially as I felt your earlier 
comment:

> Setting the working directory is likely to lead to a more reliable initial 
> state.

Was an additional nice outcome of just changing the cwd. This patch does the 
LoadLibraryEx() and works (but obviously leaves the CWD being the downloaded 
directory, probably %temp%)

I'll check this in once I get the green-light, thanks.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41575/bdist.patch

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