Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A client requested that I send MSVCR71.DLL along with the rest of an > application as it wasn't present on his machine. > > That is allowed as > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_c_run.2d.time_libraries.asp > > seems to explicitly allow for this.
For a discussion about the rights (or not) to distribute msvcr71.dll you could read the py2exe-users lists archive. > I would like to automate my build script to include this file, but > cannot think of an automatic way to determine which of msvcr70/71.dlls > .... are needed. py2exe contains an extension module that determines binary dependencies: >>> from py2exe.py2exe_util import depends >>> impport pprint >>> pprint.pprint(depends(r"c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe").keys()) ['C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\USER32.dll', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\SHELL32.dll', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\comdlg32.dll', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\WinSxS\\X86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2180_x-ww_a84f1ff9\\COMCTL32.dll', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\ADVAPI32.dll', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\msvcrt.dll', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\WINSPOOL.DRV', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\GDI32.dll', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\KERNEL32.dll'] >>> Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
