Which version of MSVC?90.DLL's to distribute with Python 2.6 based Py2exe executables?

[Jonathan Hartley]

On Dec 17, 11:16 pm, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/12/2009 7:44 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
>
> > The "P" DLL is for C++ and so the original poster may not actually need
> > it.  I'm pretty sure Python itself doesn't need it, and py2exe shouldn't
> > either, but wxPython, or more precisely wxWidgets, almost certainly does.
> > So in your case you'll probably need to redistribute both DLLs.
>
> FYI, my experience is that an entire manifest must be distributed.  As
> the manifest in question actually lists 3 DLLs, IIUC, you must ship all
> 4 files - the 3 DLLs and the manifest, even if only one of the DLLs is
> actually used.
>
> This is from memory some time back though, so apologies in advance if
> I'm mis-remembering.
>
> Mark


Thanks to everyone who replied, especially Ross obviously for such
comprehensive info.

I'll go percolate on what you wrote, and try some experiments on my
new VM, see if it all makes sense for me when I put it into practice.