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Error: "MSVCP90.dll: No such file or directory" even though Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package is installed

Asked 2012-08-26T05:37:46.753
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I'm trying to build a package from source by executing python setup.py py2exe

This is the section of code from setup.py, I suppose would be relevant:

if sys.platform == "win32": # For py2exe.
    import matplotlib
    sys.path.append("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\redist\\x86\\Microsoft.VC90.CRT")
    base_path = ""
    data_files = [("Microsoft.VC90.CRT", glob.glob(r"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC90.CRT\*.*")),

Error it shows:

*** finding dlls needed ***
error: MSVCP90.dll: No such file or directory

But I've installed "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package". I'm running 32-bit python on 64-bit Windows 8. I'm trying to build a 32-bit binaries.

Also there is no folder like this: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\redist\". This is what my computer contains:

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EDIT:

On searching for msvcp90.dll on my C:\ drive I found that they are installed in weird paths like this:

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(new answer, since the other answer describes an alternate solution)

You can take the files from the WinSxS directory and copy them to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC90.CRT directory (normally created by Visual Studio, which you don't have). Copy them to get the following structure:

  +-Microsoft.VC90.CRT
  | |
  | +-Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
  | +-msvcm90.dll
  | +-msvcp90.dll
  | +-msvcr90.dll

Then, you should be able to run the setup program (still excluding msvcp90.dll, as in the other answer), and it should successfully find the files under Microsoft.VC90.CRT and copy them as data files to your bundle.

See the py2exe tutorial for more information.

answered 2012-08-28T08:12:22.270
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I used to have a huge number of problems with complication on Windows, like the issue you're facing as well as installing packages like Cython with pip install cython.

The solution that worked best for me after two weeks of pain was downloading and running the unofficial MinGW GCC binary for Windows provided here. You might want to try giving that a shot and seeing if it helps.

If you do do it, you might want to uninstall MinGW if you have it already. I don't know if that's strictly necessary, but I always did it just in case. I did have it installed side-by-side with Cygwin without any problems.

answered 2012-09-02T00:21:25.167

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