thanks - i still don't understand tho.  if python would have to be recompiled to use a different crt, why wouldn't matlab?  if a manifest could fix matlab, why couldn't one fix python?

i ran into all this trying to get shapely to load in matlab, and using msvcrt instead of find_library('c') solved it there:
https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely/issues/104#issuecomment-111050335

that solution seems so much easier than any of this manifest/sxs stuff -- but you're saying it's wrong?

sorry i'm slow, never dealt with any of this stuff before...