Before asking my question, I must say my understanding of how python libraries are compiled or what wheels are is very limited and I don't even really know which C++ runtime DLLs are involved in the compilation of my built application. ImportError: DLL load failed while importing ft2font: the specified module was not found.īased on the discussions here, I figured this error means that Visual Studio requirements are not met (i.e 2015 or later) and as indicated at the end of this discussion, matplotlib wheels don't include C++ runtime DLLs for version > 3.3.0. I have Visual Studio 2019 on my computer so everything works fine on it but I tried running the app on another Windows computer which only has Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable package (and I guess the 2010 compiling tools), and the app crashed before lauching with this main error: However, some libraries I use in the Python code, like matplotlib, can only be compiled with Visual Studio 2015 or later (see the documentation).

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I'm trying to build a python tkinter application using cx_freeze, and I successfully build the.

Visual c++ redistributable packages