virtualenv fails with Python 3.5 on Windows · Issue #796 · pypa/virtualenv (original) (raw)

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1. Install Python 3.5 using the official Windows installer
2. Get a shell
3. python -m ensurepip (because the installer didn't install pip for me for some reason)
4. python -m pip install virtualenv (gets me version 13.1.2)
5. python -m virtualenv env

I expect: a virtualenv in ./env

I get: a GUI error dialog saying "The program can't start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer."

Apparently virtualenv needs to copy vcruntime140.dll into the new virtualenv for Python 3.5 to work on Windows.

Originally filed at http://bugs.python.org/issue25119