WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll dependency of D:\Program Files\Python39\python39.dll

[aliencaocao]

WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll dependency of D:\Program Files\Python39\python39.dll
When compiling using one file mode, i got this warning. Is this normal? So far I have not seen any side effects/errors in the compiled application, but I want to ensure stability.

Besides this, I also got

WARNING: Hidden import "pkg_resources.py2_warn" not found!
WARNING: Hidden import "pkg_resources.markers" not found!

Again no side effects seen so far.

Running pyinstaller 5.0dev0, python 3.9.7

[rokm]

Yeah, those are all harmless.

WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll dependency of D:\Program Files\Python39\python39.dll

The api-ms-win-* DLLs are typically not directly resolvable on Windows (unless you're using Anaconda python - in that case, Anaconda brings their own copy, so they are resolvable, and we collect them, even though perhaps we should not...).

I'll add a warning suppression rule for api-ms-win-core.* to prevent that warning from being shown.

WARNING: Hidden import "pkg_resources.py2_warn" not found!
WARNING: Hidden import "pkg_resources.markers" not found!

These are caused by hook adding those two modules to hiddenimports (here and here). These were probably applicable to earlier versions of pkg_resources but have since been removed, hence the warning.

[aliencaocao]

Ok thank you!

[liudonghua123]

I encountered the same problem when I packaged a pyqt5 app which use python 3.10 on my local win 11 pc and then send it to another person which use win 7.

I found the api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll dependence was involved from python 3.9+. Old python depends SHLWAPI.dll instead of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll.

[rokm]

Which is why python.org download page specifically tells you that python 3.9+ cannot be used on Windows 7: "Note that Python 3.10.5 cannot be used on Windows 7 or earlier."

[liudonghua123]

So, If I need to make an app which is compatible with windows 7+, I have only to use old python like 3.8?

[rokm]

Yes.

[rokm]

And if you want to be 100% certain that everything is collected, you should be building your app under Windows 7, too (e.g., in a VM).

[yejinchu]

get it

[liudonghua123]

After some tries, I run my pyqt5 app which is build on win11 and python 3.10 on another win7 successfully.

All I need to do is just ship the correct arch of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll from https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK/releases/download/0.3.1/api-ms-win-core-path-blender-0.3.1.zip.

So maybe I can build a 32-bit python 3.10 based app which is compatible with more windows devices.

And during the process, I got #4855 too, simple install KB3126587 to fix it.

[taurus1211]

fixed my problem! niu bi !

[liudonghua123]

I tested with both 32-bit and 64-bit of the latest python 3.10.5 embeddable package/installer package (Because you can't install the installer package, you can install on a supported os then copy it).

If I added the correct arch of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll from https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK/releases/download/0.3.1/api-ms-win-core-path-blender-0.3.1.zip to the location of python3.dll, then it worked.

mstsc_zE88E02mDp.mp4

And If you encounter some problems like The procedure entry point ucrtbase.terminate could not be located in the dynamic link library api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll or The program can’t start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. You need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (32-bit, 64-bit) from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170.

[taurus1211]

niu bi plus!