Help req: py2exe's compiled executables only working with XP

[Matthew K Jensen]

kylotan at hotmail.com (Kylotan) wrote in message news:<153fa67.0408290602.10b80c47 at posting.google.com>...
> mattjensen at timetospare.net (Matthew K Jensen) wrote in message news:<173c23bb.0408282105.4cd76e07 at posting.google.com>...
> > I am a young programmer with his big break on the line. For some
> > reason, small apps that I've written and compiled on an XP machine
> > won't work on anything but XP machines.
> 
> A better definition of what is going wrong than "won't work" is
> needed. Do the apps not run at all? Do they crash? Can you view the
> standard output/error streams to see if something is being written
> there?
> 
> Bear in mind that py2exe doesn't produce compiled executables like
> those a C++ compiler might. It's more of an executable archive and all
> the files are right there. You can even open it up in an archiving
> program to check that all the relevant dlls and so on are added.
> Running a dependency-checker tool on some of those might reveal that
> you're relying on XP-only features, although that's usually evident
> from the Python code.

 I guess I should describe the problem more. When I go to execute,
nothing visibly happens. And no, I am not using XP-only features. Is
this just a case that I should be making exe's with a previous OS and
having that run on things that came after the said OS?