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Running Python 3.9-3.11 based applications on Windows 7
Posted: 08 Dec 2022, 01:04
by K4sum1
When trying to use
Legendary, I noticed that it didn't work on 7 because the latest releases use Python 3.9, it has the api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll error.
To solve this, grab
api-ms-win-core-path-HACK, and copy the x64 dll into %windir%\System32, and then copy the x86 dll to %windir%\syswow64.
Due to the way
Legendary works, it extracts a minified Python 3.9 into %temp%, then it executes the code, because using an actually good coding language is too hard I guess. This means that the dll can't be used unless it is copied to the system folders. This probably works for more applications, I just don't know much that uses anything past 3.8.
Running Python 3.9-3.11 based applications on Windows 7
Posted: 14 Jan 2023, 14:47
by K4sum1
I tested this with the latest Python 3.11 (portable ofc) and it works with that, so this will work for a lot of applications for the foreseeable future.
Running Python 3.9-3.11 based applications on Windows 7
Posted: 16 Feb 2023, 20:08
by Darth Agnon
There is also
this project which supplies Python 3.9 to 3.11 installers that support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, basically by including api-ms-win-core-path-HACK and modifying the installers.
Running Python 3.9-3.11 based applications on Windows 7
Posted: 16 Feb 2023, 20:35
by K4sum1
I'd think it would be better to just remove the requirement instead of including the dll if you're already modifying source.
Running Python 3.9-3.11 based applications on Windows 7
Posted: 30 Dec 2024, 16:05
by Lappo
Im an
MSYS2 user (basically the current incarnation of a mingw based toolchain) and up to python 3.10 their builds support windows 7
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/234364f40842c00e1bda49db3cf8496a7e4ba205/mingw-w64-python/0111-Add-support-for-Windows-7-Python-3.10.patch this version of python is quite different from MSVC built python.org python and on top of having several patches to support building it with a mingw/windows-gnu toolchain also has patches to adapt it to the several toolchains the MSYS2 project supports, it is however another python for windows 7 alternative.
Im currently still running python 3.10 however round when the last patch for clang 20 is available i may consider bothering with looking trough the msys2 python 3.11 codebase to see if i can remove those api-ms-path calls so it can run in windows 7, any other folks that could also be bothered would be much welcome