On 06/02/2012 5:51 PM, TStirling wrote: > I am very new to Python and was tasked with making a python script run > as a stand along executable on windows. I used EasyGUI to at a GUI and > Pyinstaller to make a single windows executable. > > The executable runs fine on my windowx XP instance run through VMware > Fusion on my Mac, and it does on two colleague's native Windows 7 and > my parents windows 7. It fails to run on a friend's native windows 7 > PC, another colleague's windows XP machine, and my girlfriend' Windows > Vista laptop. > > I can't find any pattern here. > > No error messages are given, warnings, or anything. Double clicking > the executable very briefly pops up a more or less invisible window > for a few microseconds which you can't see and then it disappears > without trace. Running from the command line provides no error > messages. The program should print a welcome message to the CL > immediately upon execution so the program just can't be running at > all. > > > I don't even know where to begin since on my available computers it > runs so i cann't see how the error occurs or if I can fix it. > > What are the common problems that I should look at? > > > > The most usual cause for this sort of problem is one or more missing DLL(s) from your executable image, most usually those from the Visual C++ re-distributable pack. Some dump tools can help with this but make sure that your package includes msvcp71.dll at the very least.
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