Does not copy vcruntime140.dll file

[Jenyay]

Hello!

I make simplest script:

# coding: utf-8


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print('Hello world!')

and setup.py:

# coding: utf-8

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

executables = [Executable('example.py')]

options = {
    'build_exe': {
        'include_msvcr': True,
    }
}

setup(name='hello_world',
      version='0.0.1',
      description='My Hello World App!',
      executables=executables,
      options=options)

But vcruntime140.dll file was not copied to the build directory.

Python 3.6.1 32 bit
Windows 10
cx_Freeze 5.0.2
virtualenv is not used.

[henniss]

Duplicate of #259?

[anthony-tuininga]

Are you using a virtual environment? See issue #275.

[Jenyay]

No, virtualenv is not used.

[SamiLehtinen]

I've got exactly same issue. I've worked around it using includes parameter, which works well.

[malfario]

cx_Freeze was working for me as expected until Chocolatey installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable (x86) 14.11.25325, and suddenly it stopped copying VCRUNTIME140.dll into build\exe.win32-3.6\lib.

Uninstalling the redist package solved the issue for me, tested in these environments:

• Windows 10, python 3.6.3-x86, cx_Freeze 5.1.1, pipenv 9.0.1
• Windows 8.1, python 3.6.4-x86, cx_Freeze 5.1.1, pipenv 9.0.1

# setup.py

from cx_Freeze import setup

setup(
    options={
        'build_exe': {
            'include_msvcr': True,
            'replace_paths': [('*', '')],
            'zip_include_packages': ['*'],
            'zip_exclude_packages': [],
        }
    }
)

[jpeg13]

I've got exactly the same issue. I can reproduce it using the simple sample (cx_Freeze\samples\simple). The setup.py script runs without error, but when one starts the executable (hello.exe) on a computer without Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable package installed, the executable crashes with a system error

The program can't start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling to fix this problem.

Python 3.6.5 64 bit
Windows 7
virtualenv is not used.
Tested with cx_Freeze 5.0.2, 5.1.1, and 6.0b1

Adding the build_exe option 'include_msvcr': True does not seem to have any effect with cx_Freeze 5.0.2, 5.1.1, and 6.0b1 (as reported in #259 )

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

build_exe_options = {'include_msvcr': True}

executables = [
    Executable('hello.py')
]

setup(name='hello',
      version='0.1',
      description='Sample cx_Freeze script',
      options={'build_exe': build_exe_options},
      executables=executables
      )

Adding VCRUNTIME140.dll manually to the build directory solves the problem (but this is probably what the include_msvcr should do).

Additional remarks:

• The executable runs without error on a computer with python 3.6 installed and added to the PATH, because VCRUNTIME140.dll is then found in the python 3.6 folder
• If one imports e.g. matplotlib in the application, VCRUNTIME140.dll is then copied into the build directory by the matplotlib loader/freezer (?); the executable produced with cx_Freeze 5.0.2 or 6.0b1 then works because these versions copy the DLL directly into the build directory; the executable produced with cx_Freeze 5.1.1 does not work because this version copies the DLL into a lib sub-directory (as reported in Microsoft Visual C runtime DLLs are copied to the wrong folder #372 )
• I have a similar issue with the MSVCP140.dll when using the PySide package (but I haven't yet been able to extract a minimal example, and this second issue might also be related to the fact that PySide does not officially support python 3.6)

[mx2048]

The file VCRUNTIME140.dll is copied into cx_freeze lib dir from your Python os.path.dirname(sys.executable). For some reason you have to copy the file to the root dir manually, so that Windows can find it.

[nezo]

Hello,

I have noticed as well that simply adding import requests allowed pywintypes36.dll and VCRUNTIME140.dll to get copied during the build.

[gjb1002]

I have this problem just now (cx_Freeze 6, Python 3.7, Windows 10). The vcruntime140.dll is present in my Python directory, but is not copied, even providing include_msvcr=True. The problem seems to be that the GetDependentFiles method, (which uses the imagehlp library according to a comment) does not detect a dependency between python37.dll and vcruntime140.dll, but then the built exe refuses to run on a machine without vcruntime140.dll. The workarounds above did not help me, though manually copying the DLL into the dist directory after the build is complete does work.

[marcelotduarte]

A set of patch of mine resolves this issue. PR #516, #512, #505

[gjb1002]

OK, great. Hope to see them in a release soon then.

[SamiLehtinen]

With the unpatched version the include parameter works just fine, as I've mentioned about two years ago. include_files = ['path/vcruntime140.dll'] But it's nice to hear that the 'include_msvcr': True should start working soon as well.

[marcelotduarte]

cx_Freeze 6.1 has just been released.
Assuming this has been resolved.
If you had issues please re-open.

[AndreiTS]

I got this error while executing the exe generated by cxfreeze: VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing

I'm using Python 3.8.1, cxFreeze 6.1, my build options are:

build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os","pathlib"], "excludes": ["tkinter"], 'include_msvcr': True}

[tolszak]

Me too