Gordon M's Installer- Missing DLL

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Wed Jun 7 15:58:48 EDT 2000


g_will at cyberus.ca (Gordon Williams) wrote: 

>I am trying to distribute a program that I have packaged into a
>standalone. 
> The package is installing ok but I am getting a report back that a dll
> is 
>not loading when I run the standalone.
>
>C:\Scopal>scopal03b.exe
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
[snip]
>  File "E:\Program Files\Python\wxPython\__init__.py", line 20, in ?
>    import wxc
>  File "E:\Program
>  Files\Python\Installer_3f\Installer\support\imputil.py", 
>line
> 54, in _import_hook
>    return self.__chain_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist)
>ImportError: DLL load failed: One of the library files needed to run
>this applic
>ation cannot be found.

Python is reporting an error that Windows gave it when it tried to load 
wxc.pyd. The missing dll is almost certainly wx21_13.dll (maybe a different 
verion embedded in the name) which is in your system directory.

- Gordon



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