> On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> Donald Stufft wrote:
>> Is this version statically linked by any chance?
> 
> No, there's no change to the compilation process, so you can get exactly the 
> same result by using the regular installer and copying the files around.
> 
> Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but on Windows DLLs are always 
> loaded from alongside the executable before searching in other locations. I 
> learned at PyCon that some platforms embed full paths for .so's (I'd always 
> just assumed that there was a similar resolution process), but this is not 
> the case here. Dropping all the DLLs and PYDs in the same location is 
> sufficient to make sure you always load the right files, unless sys.path has 
> been filled in with incorrect registry values (the bug I referenced).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve

My use case is using PyInstaller to attempt to create a single file executable. 
Doing it on Windows was giving a strange error message about mscrvt or 
something so I thought maybe I needed to statically compile Python. I was 
hoping maybe this thing would have done that for me so I didn’t need to figure 
out how.

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