Making a Windows .exe with gui2exe does not work because of missing MSVCP90.dll

Question

I'm trying to compile my python script into a single .exe using gui2exe (which uses py2exe to create a .exe). My program is using wxWidgets and everytime I try to compile it I get the following error message:

error MSVCP90.dll: No such file or directory.

I have already downloaded and installed the VC++ redistributable package, so I should have this .dll shouldn't I?

Answer 1

Yes you should have it. You have to exclude it from py2exe.

options = {
    'py2exe': {
        'dll_excludes': [
            'MSVCP90.dll'
         ]
     }
}

setup(windows=["main.py"], options=options)

Answer 2

what you need is to go to microsoft's download site and get visual C++ 2008 redistributed package. Tell it to do a repair and search for the driver. Copy the driver to the DLL folder in the python directory