Libraries packaged in unexpected location when using python installed via scoop

[bersbersbers]

Description of the issue

The following example code fails on my system:

bug.py

# pyinstaller --onefile bug.py && dist\bug.exe
import matplotlib

The output is:

C:\Build\project>dist\bug.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Scoop\persist\python\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks\rthooks\pyi_rth_mplconfig.py", line 45, in <module>
    _pyi_rthook()
  File "C:\Scoop\persist\python\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks\rthooks\pyi_rth_mplconfig.py", line 31, in _pyi_rthook
    import _pyi_rth_utils  # PyInstaller's run-time hook utilities module
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 391, in exec_module
  File "PyInstaller\fake-modules\_pyi_rth_utils\__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 391, in exec_module
  File "PyInstaller\fake-modules\_pyi_rth_utils\_win32.py", line 12, in <module>
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 391, in exec_module
  File "ctypes\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _ctypes: The specified module could not be found.
[4880] Failed to execute script 'pyi_rth_mplconfig' due to unhandled exception!

Context information (for bug reports)

• Output of pyinstaller --version: 6.1.0
• Version of Python: 3.12.0
• Platform: Windows
• How you installed Python: scoop install python
• Did you also try this on another platform? No, scoop is Windows-only.
• try the latest development version, using the following command: same result.

libffi-8.dll seems to be packaged in the wrong location inside the MEI, see https://github.com/orgs/pyinstaller/discussions/7431#discussioncomment-7335377.

[rokm]

libffi-8.dll seems to be packaged in the wrong location inside the MEI, see https://github.com/orgs/pyinstaller/discussions/7431#discussioncomment-7335377.

Thanks for the initial analysis! This sounds like a DLL parent path preservation bug (which seems to affect either scoop-installed python, or perhaps python without virtual environment in general). I'll look into it.

[bersbersbers]

Beautiful, thank you! It's not the only place where scoops symlinks/junctions create problems, but I'm happy you choose to support it.