Wininst-9.0.exe and wininst-9.0-amd64.exe are missing MSVCRT90 dependencies in the embedded manifest.

While testing installers of pywin32 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/> version 214 built with Python 2.6.4 and the msvc9compiler_stripruntimes_regexp2.diff patch from Issue4120 <http://bugs.python.org/issue4120>, I noticed that the post_install script fails with an ImportError while trying to load extensions without embedded MSVCRT90 manifest:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 601, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 311, in install
  File "<string>", line 149, in LoadSystemModule
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

The code that fails is:

    mod = imp.load_module(modname, None, filename, ('.dll', 'rb', imp.C_EXTENSION))

where modname='pywintypes' and filename points to an existing 'pywintypes26.dll' file. 

The post_install script runs fine when executed from the main python.exe interpreter.

A possible fix is to embed a MSVCRT90 dependency into wininst-9.0.exe and wininst-9.0-amd64.exe using the following linker switches:

/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:"type='Win32' name='Microsoft.VC90.CRT' version='9.0.21022.8' processorArchitecture='X86' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b'"

/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:"type='Win32' name='Microsoft.VC90.CRT' version='9.0.21022.8' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b'" 

See also <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ew0y5khy.aspx>

A patch against the Python 2.6 PCbuild\bdist_wininst.vcproj is attached. I tested it with Python 2.6.4, 32 and 64 bit, and pywin32 214 installers built with the following command:

  python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst --user-access-control=auto --install-script=wxpython_win_post_install.py