Software based on Python 3.9 is not working on Windows 7
Question:
I made a standalone software using python3.9 which properly works on my system and another windows 10 system also, but I tried running that software on Windows 7 Ultimate and it shows some errors.
Please note that I made the software by binding all the required python modules using PyInstaller.
Those errors are as follows:
- Error loading Python DLL
‘C:UsershpAppDataLocalTemp_MEI19602python39.dll’.
LoadLibrary: The specified module could not be found.
- The program can’t start because api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try
reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
What can I do to run this program on Windows 7?
Answers:
If you check out the Python documentation, you will see that Python 3.9 is not supported on Windows 7:
As specified in PEP 11, a Python release only supports a Windows platform while Microsoft considers the platform under extended support. This means that Python 3.9 supports Windows 8.1 and newer. If you require Windows 7 support, please install Python 3.8.
You can read more here.
Times has come and may be you should learn how to build from the source:
Discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/rbhd2n/python_39_310_on_windows_7/
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Fork of CPython:
Installers:
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Another workaround which creates the missing api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll:
Both solutions above use code from the Wine project to emulate missing functions (PathCchCanonicalizeEx, PathCchCombineEx, PathCchSkipRoot) on Windows 7.
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Unofficial Python Installers for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 R2.
Include the file api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll in the distribution obtained from https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK:
-
Unofficial Python Installers for Windows.
These installers were built from the source distributions published at https://www.python.org/downloads/source/, patched to fix some bugs in the build scripts and to include debugging symbols and debug binaries:
PS:
Errors around api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll and a such basically requires to install a particular vcredist_x86.exe/vcredist_x64.exe. But specifically that error in the Python 3.9 is because the DLL is a part of windows 8.
I made a standalone software using python3.9 which properly works on my system and another windows 10 system also, but I tried running that software on Windows 7 Ultimate and it shows some errors.
Please note that I made the software by binding all the required python modules using PyInstaller.
Those errors are as follows:
- Error loading Python DLL
‘C:UsershpAppDataLocalTemp_MEI19602python39.dll’.
LoadLibrary: The specified module could not be found. - The program can’t start because api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try
reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
What can I do to run this program on Windows 7?
If you check out the Python documentation, you will see that Python 3.9 is not supported on Windows 7:
As specified in PEP 11, a Python release only supports a Windows platform while Microsoft considers the platform under extended support. This means that Python 3.9 supports Windows 8.1 and newer. If you require Windows 7 support, please install Python 3.8.
You can read more here.
Times has come and may be you should learn how to build from the source:
Discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/rbhd2n/python_39_310_on_windows_7/
-
Fork of CPython:
Installers:
-
Another workaround which creates the missing
api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll:
Both solutions above use code from the Wine project to emulate missing functions (PathCchCanonicalizeEx, PathCchCombineEx, PathCchSkipRoot) on Windows 7.
-
Unofficial Python Installers for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 R2.
Include the fileapi-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dllin the distribution obtained fromhttps://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK: -
Unofficial Python Installers for Windows.
These installers were built from the source distributions published at https://www.python.org/downloads/source/, patched to fix some bugs in the build scripts and to include debugging symbols and debug binaries:
PS:
Errors around api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll and a such basically requires to install a particular vcredist_x86.exe/vcredist_x64.exe. But specifically that error in the Python 3.9 is because the DLL is a part of windows 8.