Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] PyOpgnGL-3.0.1a2 MSVCR71.dll not found

[David L. P. <pa...@gm...>]

Mike--

Thanks. Yes, it is the installer that gave the warning.

I tried downloading the zip files according to your last suggestion.

It worked for PyOpenGL-3.0.1b2.zip but not for
PyOpenGL-accelerate-3.0.1b2.zip. Here's the output for th accelerate
attempt.

f:\PyOpenGL-accelerate-3.0.1b2> python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'OpenGL_accelerate.wrapper' extension
Unable to import Numeric, skipping Numeric extension building
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

--Dave




On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Mike C. Fletcher
<mcf...@vr...>wrote:

> David L. Page wrote:
> >
> > I am attempting to install PyOpenGL-3.0.1b2 on a Win7 system with
> > Python 2.6 installed. I receive an error that msvcr71.dll was not
> > found upon start of the PyOpenGL install exe.
> >
> > I have found online suggestions to download msvcr71.dll from various
> > sites and then to copy that dll into the win system directory. For
> > obvious reasons, I am unsatisfied with this solution and haven't
> > attempted it.
> >
> > Does any else have a work around?
> Hmm, that's a pain.  If I'm reading correctly, there's no VC 2003 (7.1)
> redistributable download on microsoft.com.  So there's no official way
> to redistribute it?  That doesn't seem very helpful :( .  Something has
> installed it to the Windows folder on my Vista machine, but I've got the
> MS Free compiler on there, which likely included it.  I seem to recall
> that Python 2.5 included msvcrt71.dll but that there were problems with
> redistributions of it (or something like that)... hmm, it's not
> installed in the Python25 folder, so it could be that's what did the
> system-level install.
>
> What's really weird is that PyOpenGL without the accelerator module is
> pure Python... that is, it's not even compiled, it just uses ctypes to
> access the dlls.  Maybe in compiling one of the dlls we bundle as data
> (maybe GLE?) I produced a dependency on vc7's redistributable.  If you
> move OpenGL/DLLS/gle32.dll and OpenGL/DLLS/glut32.dll do you still get
> the message?
>
> Hmm, reading again, you're saying the *installer* is failing... hrmph.
> Probably built the pure-python installer with Python 2.5 and it linked
> to the Python 2.5 runtime... why would an installer require an external
> run-time?  Sigh.  Work-around would be to run the source installation
> (i.e. download, unpack, run "python setup.py install") or even use
> "easy_install <thezipfile>" if you want.
>
> Mike
>
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