Mark Hammond

The event log not being registered correctly is annoying, but there's probably python exception details buried in that log event. Does "debug" work?

oops, sorry, I missed that info. Error 193 is `ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT` and is coming from https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/blob/0c7297b861b962a00e0a14a6d995f339663429e0/win32/src/PythonService.cpp#L1471. This seems very odd - I really can't come up with any ideas for how...

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The README is the only guide. Sadly you need the compiler and sdk to be able to build things, which is going to be necessary here.

I suspect that `find_platform_sdk_dir()` simply doesn't know about the location of the SDKs installed by the later compilers. If you have a look at that function you will find it's...

> DLL load failed while importing _win32sysloader: ... "\lib\pywintypes.py", line 50, in **import_pywin32_system_module**\n import _win32sysloader This means *Windows* failed to load _win32sysloader.pyd due to a missing import - most likely...

> I'm wondering why you need to append these paths at all in your Python code when you run it in the activated venv where you also installed pywin32? Yeah,...

Thanks for the excellent report. This can be reproduced in our repo with: ``` diff --git a/fixtures/ext-types/lib/src/lib.rs b/fixtures/ext-types/lib/src/lib.rs index 722c6c4354..fb0911bf6b 100644 --- a/fixtures/ext-types/lib/src/lib.rs +++ b/fixtures/ext-types/lib/src/lib.rs @@ -143,6 +143,11 @@ ouid.unwrap_or_else(||...