windows 7 moans on pywin32 - makes systray not positioned correctly

[Antoine Martin]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "applet.py", line 873, in get_win32_tray_position
File "applet.py", line 880, in do_get_win32_tray_position
File "shifter\ui\window_util.pyc", line 153, in get_shell_tray_window
File "shifter\ui\window_util.pyc", line 129, in get_impl
Exception: All window manager utility classes failed to load!

ImportError: DLL load failed: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

[Antoine Martin]

Looks like Microsoft.VC90.CRT related (again.. sigh)

Placing another copy of the DLLs in the root folder seems to solve that.

[Antoine Martin]

Not solved and definitely related to the MSVCRT DLL horror.

Not the only one to be having this issue either:
​py2exe post

[Antoine Martin]

Best summary found ​here

[Antoine Martin]

Building against python2.5 add adding MFC71.DLL to the build works ok.
(python2.5 + win32 causes other problems though... sigh)

[Antoine Martin]

python 2.5 kinda works (for now...)

[Antoine Martin]

Got broken again (not sure when) and fixed again in r3862.

For more information, also see: ​py2exe Tutorial and ​Py2exeAndWin32ui

[Antoine Martin]

The DLLs required can be found in ​VC2008 SP1 Redistributable or in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.