@bwoodsend Thanks for your detailed reply. I searched my computer and specifically C:\Windows\System32\api-ms* I don't have api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll. Is that odd? What source would you recommend I download it from?
On Friday, 31 July 2020 17:33:30 UTC+5:30, bwoodsend wrote: > > You’ll need to add that missing dll to your app when building on Windows > 10 if you want it to work on Windows 7. To do this: > > First locate that dll. Use where api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll. It’s > a system dll so it’s probably in the same place for everyone. Mine is at > C:\Windows\System32\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll. > > Second add it to your package. If you’re using --onedir mode you can > actually just copy/paste it in but this isn’t recommended for anything > other than a quick experiment. To do it properly add --add-binary > C:\Windows\System32\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll;. to your PyInstaller > xxx.py command (alter the path to the dll if yours differs). > Or if you use the spec file add > binaries=[(shutil.which("api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll"), > ".")] to the a = Analysis(...) section. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyinstaller+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/4def4f1a-7cc0-4cc5-a1e0-ffbb8d7ec88co%40googlegroups.com.