I notice that I do not have the dll when py2exe says it cannot locate the dll. If I need vs2008, then what good is vcredist_xxx.exe? It does not seem to give me the dll, but the py2exe tutorial says that it will. What am I missing?
On 4/14/10, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > On 14.04.2010 13:22, Alex Hall wrote: >> I tried both vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe, with no result; I >> still do not have the required dll (I have 32-bit python, so the _x86 >> should have done the trick). I will try another poster's suggestion of >> installing vcpp express 2005 and hope that will work... > > How do you notice that you don't have the required DLL? The DLLs aren't > copied into system32. The new location is the side by side assembly > directory WinSxS. You need adminstration privileges to install SxS > assemblies. > > By the way VC Express 2005 is the wrong version. Python 2.6 and newer > are compiled with VS 2008. > > Christian > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list