Yes, I agree it doesn't make much sense to fix it in pyinstaller, if
it is going to be (hopefully ;)) fixed in python itself anyway.
Regarding your question: Unfortunately, the manifest seems to be
needed - otherwise the exe will show an error popup right after launch
('application configuration incorrect') and close.
On 14 Mrz., 14:53, Giovanni Bajo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On ven, 2009-03-13 at 04:47 -0700, Florian Höch wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks, now I found what I was missing - the executable also needs an
> > updated manifest which references the CRT. Then, it also works with
> > Python 2.6.1 (for Python 2.6 the changed manifest is not needed)
> > Summary so far for me:
>
> > - My method above: works with Python 2.6 (both --onedir and --
> > onefile), --onedir also works with Python 2.6.1, but not --onefile
> > - My method above + assembly next to the executable (DLLs +
> > Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest, either in subfolder called
> > Microsoft.VC90.CRT or loose files): --onefile also works with Python
> > 2.6.1 (even though it is no longer really a onefile deployment - but I
> > certainly don't blame pyinstaller)
>
> > I also found thishttp://bugs.python.org/issue4566I didn't know about
> > before - so maybe we can hope that a real fix for those issues will be
> > incorporated into Python itself in a next version.
> >From the reading of the bug, I deduce that the executable's manifest is
>
> not required anymore in Python 2.6.2. This will leave Python 2.6.1 as
> the only version requiring this workaround -- in which case, I prefer to
> simply declare it unsupported and bail out when running Configure.py
> against it.
>
> On the other hand, I would like to incorporate your fixes for Python 2.6
> but we need to find a better way of doing it.
>
> First question: if you *don't* add the msvc*90.dll and the manifest to
> the a.binaries list, but you simply copy them like this:
>
> YourProgram.exe <- made by PyInstaller
> Microsoft.VC90.CRT\
> msvcr90.dll
> msvcp90.dll
> etc.
>
> so *without* copying the manifest, does it work?
> --
> Giovanni Bajo
> Develer S.r.l.http://www.develer.com
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