OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found

[Dieu Donne Megnassan]

I need help to figure this out. I'm a GeoDjango newbie and I've been trying to setup the geograpic libraries to no avail.I am following the documentation for windows all right, but everytime I runserver after setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH, I get this error:

PS C:\users\charming\desktop\web\heritage\muina> python manage.py runserver

Unhandled exception in thread started by <function check_errors.<locals>.wrapper at 0x000002B4FE44AEA0>

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 225, in wrapper

    fn(*args, **kwargs)

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\commands\runserver.py", line 109, in inner_run

    autoreload.raise_last_exception()

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 248, in raise_last_exception

    raise _exception[1]

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\__init__.py", line 337, in execute

    autoreload.check_errors(django.setup)()

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\utils\autoreload.py", line 225, in wrapper

    fn(*args, **kwargs)

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\__init__.py", line 24, in setup

    apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\apps\registry.py", line 120, in populate

    app_config.ready()

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\apps.py", line 24, in ready

    self.module.autodiscover()

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\__init__.py", line 26, in autodiscover

    autodiscover_modules('admin', register_to=site)

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\utils\module_loading.py", line 47, in autodiscover_modules

    import_module('%s.%s' % (app_config.name, module_to_search))

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module

    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\admin\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>

    from django.contrib.gis.admin.options import GeoModelAdmin, OSMGeoAdmin

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\admin\options.py", line 2, in <module>

    from django.contrib.gis.admin.widgets import OpenLayersWidget

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\admin\widgets.py", line 3, in <module>

    from django.contrib.gis.gdal import GDALException

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\gdal\__init__.py", line 28, in <module>

    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.datasource import DataSource

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\gdal\datasource.py", line 39, in <module>

    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.driver import Driver

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\gdal\driver.py", line 5, in <module>

    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.prototypes import ds as vcapi, raster as rcapi

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\gdal\prototypes\ds.py", line 9, in <module>

    from django.contrib.gis.gdal.libgdal import GDAL_VERSION, lgdal

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\gis\gdal\libgdal.py", line 47, in <module>

    lgdal = CDLL(lib_path)

  File "C:\Users\Charming\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 356, in __init__

    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)

OSError: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found



I think it has something to do with my python, idk.

[Adam Starrh]

I just solved this for myself by switching to 32-bit versions of Python and OSGeo4Win