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Python 2.5 / missing msvcp71.dll issue on Windows

545142Feb 19 2009 — edited Feb 25 2009
During a new DBXML installation I got stuck for a while installing the Python 2.5 bindings for DB XML 2.4.16 -- I kept getting a DLL import error when importing the dbxml module in the Python code. After a bit of troubleshooting I found that I was missing msvcp71.dll on the new Windows Server 2003 SP2 installation. Copying it over from the \windows\system32 folder of another of our servers (one that's currently running the same OS/Python/DB XML setup) to the system folder of the new server seems to have solved the problem.

I haven't been able to find useful info on msvcp71.dll and this issue generally. I noticed that the new Windows server does have a msvcr71.dll in the system folder but I don't know if they're related. I'm just going with what worked for me. But I have two questions/suggestions:

1. If there is a better approach than what I've done, please post it.
2. The install.txt file in C:\Program Files\Oracle\Berkeley DB XML 2.4.16\python doesn't mention the msvcp71.dll dependency -- if others might encounter the problem I did, how about mentioning it there to save them some trouble?

Tim
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