On Apr 15, 12:11 pm, Jonathan Hartley <tart...@tartley.com> wrote: > Alex Hall wrote: > > The vcredist_x86 was, I thought, supposed to give me > > the dll, but it does not seem to have done so. > > The installer puts the DLL in the directory C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS > (or at least it does for me, on WinXP) I shall update the py2exe > tutorial page to reflect this. > > Under that dir, there are a lot of mangled directory names, and a > director called 'Manifests'. You can still discern the text > 'Microsoft.VC90.CRT' and '9.0.21022.8' within the filenames of the DLL > dir and the manifest file that you want. I am no expert, but I think > if you are taking a copy of these to embed in your application, then > you can (must?) rename them to remove the mangling, as described on > the py2exe tutorial page. > > If you still cannot find the DLL there, then try searching your > "Program Files" folder for a copy included with another application. > Several other Visual C/C++ applications include these runtime DLLs. > (eg. Console2 from sourceforge) > > One other thing to keep in mind is that there is more than one version > of this DLL in the wild, all with the same filename. You absolutely > need the same version that Python 2.6 was compiled with, which is > 9.0.21022.8. You can tell which version of the DLL you have got the > tooltip when hovering you mouse cursor over it. (also hovering over > the redistributable installer will tell you the same thing) > > The original version of the redistributable installer does provide the > correct DLL version (this is the same thing as linked to above. This > is the English > version):http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e0... > > The SP1 version of the same installer provides a different version of > the DLL (but with the same filename). This will not work.
Oh, and, this is probably obvious and well-known, sorry if I'm teaching grandmother to suck eggs here, but if you have rights to distribute this DLL with your application, I understand this means that you own a copy of Visual Studio, and a copy of the DLL and manifest file can be found in the installed Visual Studio 'redist' directory. If you don't have such a DLL in that directory (eg. if you have the express edition) then you don't have legal right to distribution it. Just so you know. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
