ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Jul 9, 12:47 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I began my journey into creating executables. I am using
> Andrea
> Gavana's cool GUI2EXE program which works very well and that is a GUI
> for
> py2ece. I am also using Inno Setup to create a script/executable.
> Anyway,
> today I am putting the program to the test with some volunteer testers
> and
> I've hit a wall. On the first tester's PC the program installed
> beautifully and runs great. The next tester's PC, the program failed
> to
> run complaining that MSVCR71.dll didn't exist. I copied that file on
> there and now I get the following traceback written to my exe's log
> file:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "reminder.py", line 23, in ?
> File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 78, in load_module
> File "wx\__init__.pyo", line 45, in ?
> File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 78, in load_module
> File "wx\_core.pyo", line 4, in ?
> File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 91, in load_module
> ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading wx\_core_.pyd
>
> I see other user's have this issue too sometimes and they talk a lot
> about
> a "gdiplus.dll" file. My user's PC has that file in 4 places on her
> computer and my development PC has it in 6 places. Does either DLL
> have to
> be in a specific location for the executable to find it? Is this
> something
> else entirely? I tried sticking the gdiplus.dll file in the directory
> my
> executable runs from too, but that didn't work either.
>
> I have posted this to the wxPython's group and the py2exe group, but
> the latter doesn't have much activity and the wxPython suggestions
> didn't work.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Mike

I figured this out, not that anyone probably cares. It seems the
program was looking for MSVCP71.dll, but I (alas) included the
MSVCR71.dll instead. If I include the correct file, it works. For all
the newbs out there, spelling makes a difference!

Mike