That's not really a working solution. My available development platform is a
Vista machine. I don't have an available XP platform. XP built exes run fine
on Vista, just not vice versa.
--Michael
On 10/31/07, O.R.Senthil Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> * Michael Langford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-29 10:59:34]:
>
> > I'm trying to build a exe on a vista system using py2exe. It will deploy
> to
> > vista and XP systems. If it matters, the application uses pyserial, as
> well.
>
> Before you proceed with lot of other experiments, my suggestion would be
> build exes on VISTA and XP separately, and trying running on the other
> system. I am assuming the either of the two.
> a) VISTA dlls should be backward compatible with XP, which your issue
> indicates that you faced problems.
> b) functionality which is provided by exe built on XP, should be provided
> by VISTA as well.
>
> I would also suggest to check the files and for any incompatible ones,
> ship both. I doubt, if renaming of msvcrt.dll to something like
> msvcrt1.dll will work if you have carry both. Just a little research on
> py2exe checking if we can ship two same named dlls in perhaps different
> folders can help.
>
> Thanks,
> Senthil
>
>
> --
> O.R.Senthil Kumaran
> http://uthcode.sarovar.org
>
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