Accessing external DLLs

[Matt Carpenter]

Forgive if this is a duplicate.  I thought I sent this already.

I'm trying to generate an .exe from my python script which accesses external DLLs using ctypes, and I would like to *not* package the DLLs.  How do I use PyInstaller to generate an .exe which use the DLLs on the target machine it's running on?

I did some searching but I haven't found anything that talks about this scenario, even though I don't doubt you've already answered this question before.  If so, I apologize, please just point me at it.

Thank you in advance!

Matt

[Jasper Harrison]

No special handling should be required that I can think of. You should be able to load a DLL just the same as in an unfrozen python script.

Jasper Harrison, aka Legorooj

Core Developer on PyInstaller

https://legorooj.net

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[Matt Carpenter]

Thank you, Jasper.  I finally figured out that I'm running into a problem with Win7, but it worked on Win10.  <facepalm>

Thank you for responding with the info!  There were some unknowns with PyInstaller that this helped me be certain about.

Is there a previous version of PyInstaller that I could use to create an .exe that works on Win7?

Matt