Py2exe - win32api.pyc ImportError DLL load failed
py2exe, python
Solution
I've seen this problem when the package was built on Vista but executed on XP. The problem turned out to be that py2exe mistakenly added `powrprof.dll` and `mswsock.dll` to the package. Windows XP contains its own copies of these files though, and can't load the Vista ones which got installed with your app.
Removing them from the package did the trick, you can do this easy by adding this to the `options` dict in `setup.py`
'dll_excludes': [ "mswsock.dll", "powrprof.dll" ]
Problem
I am trying to use py2exe to distribute a python application I have written. Everything seems to go OK, but when I run it on another machine it fails with the following error: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "application.py", line 12, in <module> File "win32api.pyc", line 12, in <module> File "win32api.pyc", line 10, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. ``` I have googled for this and not found very much, but have tried the following suggestions to no avail: Imported pywintypes and pythoncom before win32api (in the setup.py for py2exe and in the main application) Added some code to the setup.py - ``` # ModuleFinder can't handle runtime changes to __path__, but win32com uses them import pywintypes import pythoncom import win32api try: # if this doesn't work, try import modulefinder import py2exe.mf as modulefinder import win32com for p in win32com.__path__[1:]: modulefinder.AddPackagePath("win32com", p) for extra in ["win32com.shell"]: #,"win32com.mapi" __import__(extra) m = sys.modules[extra] for p in m.__path__[1:]: modulefinder.AddPackagePath(extra, p) except ImportError: # no build path setup, no worries. pass ``` I'm quite new to all this, so any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks Jon