Which version of MSVC?90.DLL's to distribute with Python 2.6 based Py2exe executables?

[Ross Ridge]

Jonathan Hartley  <tartley at tartley.com> wrote:
>Many thanks for that, but my issue is that my programs work fine for
>me on my computer - but then fail on other people's computers. I'd
>very strongly prefer for my users to not have to install the MSVCR
>redistributable installer as well as my program - it would be much
>better if I could bundle everything up into my py2exe package so that
>it 'just works' on any Windows computer. So I think that means I'm
>looking for a stand-alone DLL (or several, plus the manifest file, it
>sounds like) to bundle up with my py2exe.

Microsoft's documentation describes several possible ways you can
redistribute the Visual C++ runtime:

	http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235299.aspx

>From the sounds of things, if you only have Visual C++ 2008 Express your
only option may be to use Visual C++ Redistributable Package.

				Ross Ridge

-- 
 l/  //	  Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU
[oo][oo]  rridge at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
-()-/()/  http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ 
 db  //