Error: “MSVCP90.dll: No such file or directory” even though Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package is installed

Question

I\'m trying to build a package from source by executing python setup.py py2exe

This is the section of code from setup.py, I suppose would be relevant:

Answer 1

I used to have a huge number of problems with complication on Windows, like the issue you're facing as well as installing packages like Cython with pip install cython.

The solution that worked best for me after two weeks of pain was downloading and running the unofficial MinGW GCC binary for Windows provided here. You might want to try giving that a shot and seeing if it helps.

If you do do it, you might want to uninstall MinGW if you have it already. I don't know if that's strictly necessary, but I always did it just in case. I did have it installed side-by-side with Cygwin without any problems.