win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

[Tim Golden]

On 26/05/2014 14:24, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
>
>>>>   Strange thing is that win32serviceutil.py is part of the pywin32
>>>>   distribution, so I guess I should be able to import it, right?
>>> Make sure you have a pywin32 that matches ???. Matching includes python
>>> version and bitness.
>> In addition, c:\python27\DLLs should also be on your %PATH%:
>> setx PATH "%PATH%;c:\python27\DLLs"
> Just curious: what if I don't have python2.7 installed at all? How on
> earth python3.4 + pywin32 requires DLL files from python2.7 ?
>
> BTW it did not help. Here is my path:
>
> Path=C:\Python34\;C:\Python34\Scripts;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA
> Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
> Files\SlikSvn\bin;C:\texlive\2013\bin\win32;c:\Python34\DLLs;c:\Python27\DLLs
>
>
> I have both Python27 and Python34 installed.
>
> Python 3.4: "import win32service" still throws ImportError: DLL load
> failed.
> Python 2.7: "import win32service" succeeds
>
> Build information:
>
> Python 3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 10:45:13) [MSC v.1600 64
> bit (AMD64)] on win32
>
> It is the official latest. pywin32 is also the latest (build 219).

Nagy -- could you post to the python-win32 list? There's nothing wrong 
with putting it out here, but I don't know if the pywin32 guys hang out 
here, and I know they definitely do there. (Which is also lower volume).

I'm not seeing any changes to the win32service code, but a "missing DLL" 
error is almost always about some combination of permissions / UAC on 
install. Adding anything to your PATH is unlikely to help (unless you 
have a truly outlandish PATH).

I'll try to reproduce later if I can but I don't have time right now.

TJG