Message10211

I tried to provide msvcrt.dll, but were not able to improve the situation, so maybe this isn't actually the cause. Some questions came up:

My attempt was to get the msvcrt I assumed was bundeled with Python 2.7. I found out that Python 2.7 for Windows is only available as .msi file and I failed to unpack the archive on linux with several programs ("unsupported archive"), which is strange, because it is usually no problem to read .msi files.

So I just installed the .msi on windows, which went fine. However there is no msvcrt.dll in the Python folder. Maybe it was installed to a system folder, but I have no clue to which - there is an msvcrt.dll in System32, but that might have been there before.

I also took a look at Python 3, which is also available as zip-archive for windows, but again - no masvcrt or similar is in that archive. So it appears that msvcrt is actually *not* bundeled with Python.

Then I asked google and found out that Python 2.7 is said to be linked against msvcr90.dll - good to know the actual version. However there are plaenty of these files on my windows partition in several locations, but none of them is in a general system-folder or a Python-related folder. They are in some update-cache-folders, mainly in winssx.

I chose one and copied it to Jython-bin folder next to jython.exe, but this didn't change anything. I tried this with a version of the file from a 64-bit-sounding folder (x86-amd64 in the name) as well as with one from a 32-bit-sounding folder (just x86 in the name).

Any ideas what else to try? Would also be good to know how Python's access to msvcr90.dll really works.

1) Does it actually really need it?
2) If so, why does it (seemingly) not supply it?
3) If 1) and 2), how does it work then?
4) Where is msvcr90.dll expected to be stored?