On 16/06/2009 12:40 PM, Roberto Aguilar wrote:
Hello everyone,

I've been able to successfully build a MSI of pywin32 under Python
2.6.2. But, when trying to use python, e.g. "import win32api", after
installing the MSI I get:

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

With the help of a colleague, I discovered the problem is due to python
not finding pywintypes26.dll. This file was installed by the MSI. It's in:

C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32

but that location is not being searched when importing.

I can either:

- set PATH=c:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32;%PATH%
- then importing win32api works fine.

or

- move pywintypes26.dll to c:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32
- then importing win32api works fine.

Or arrange to execute 'pywin32-postinstall.py -install' at the end of the install, which will copy those files somewhere suitable (either system32, or to the python dir).

I'd be happy to make that script friendlier for MSI if necessary (and hopefully you will contribute the MSI process back to pywin32 ;)

Cheers,

Mark
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