On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Not everyone has run Windows update since the current runtime was released.
Python's installer tries (and sometimes fails) to install the KB2999226 update, which installs an old version of the Universal CRT. Some installers instead bundle the VC++ redistributable, which includes KB2999226, but that would be overkill for CPython. I thought we could phase this out in 3.6 to instead require an up-to-date OS. If people need offline updates, as opposed to using Windows update, it's better to get the most recent version directly from Microsoft, KB3118401 [1]. Steve Dower disagreed, and that's the end of it. As to the loader returning STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_FORMAT (0xC000007B), I would run the executable/script under a debugger such as WinDbg or cdb, with loader snaps enabled via gflags. Find the troublesome DLL(s), and manually resolve the problem. [1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118401 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
