py2exe LoadLibrary question

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 11 May 2007 19:22:53 -0300, <gordon.chapman at gmail.com> escribió:

> Yep, it's the old LoadLibrary failed problem.
>
> I understand that python24.dll is required for the executable to run,
> but I'm going to be building a few of these executables and I don't
> want to have to bundle python24 along with each one.
> We have python24.dll installed in c:/windows/system32, why is
> loadlibrary not finding it?

py2exe emulates LoadLibrary, does not use the Windows API function  
directly. In principle it might be possible to find python24.dll on the  
standard PATH, but it does not (currently).
The dll is not so big, you could put it alongside your executable (as  
py2exe expects it to be). I used to install several small applications in  
a single directory, sharing the required dlls.
Or switch to another tool like pyInstaller  
http://pyinstaller.python-hosting.com/wiki that apparently does not have  
this problem.

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Gabriel Genellina