Rok Mandeljc

To verify, can you use for example ListDLLs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/listdlls to list all loaded DLLs in the 6.x and 5.13.2 build? (Make sure to list the DLLs from the parent process).

Yeah, the parent in 5.13.2 case is using system copy ``` 0x0000000096d20000 0x1d000 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\VCRUNTIME140.dll ``` while 6.9.0 is using the bundled one. ``` 0x000000009b0e0000 0x1d000 C:\Users\QINGXI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI142402\VCRUNTIME140.dll ``` Out of curiosity,...

Thanks for doing the debugging @rqx110 - this has been very helpful!

@rqx110 Can you check if https://github.com/rokm/pyinstaller/tree/splash-screen-vcruntime140-leak-try2 fixes the problem for you? You need to recompile bootloader, so you need to have MSVC installed. ``` pip uninstall pyinstaller set PYINSTALLER_COMPILE_BOOTLOADER=1 pip...

@skelsec Are you also installing `pyinstaller` via the obsolete `python setup.py install`?

> @rokm If `python setup.py install` is obsolete, the docs should be updated here: https://pyinstaller.org/en/v5.6.2/installation.html#installing-from-the-archive Ah, thanks - they should indeed. And we should probably also override the `bdist_egg` command...

... which won't really help us when some other package is installed via `python setup.py install` (like in skelsec's example). So for such cases, we should handle the exception thrown...

> Scrapping that part of the codebase would be ideal. I still can't really figure out what it's trying to achieve. It collects "data files" (anything that does not have...

> @rokm It's not working on windows because of missing dbus, right? Yeah, looks like the `cd` plugin requires udisks2 (accessible via dbus) for listing devices. Which makes my earlier...

Can we see the `Analysis-00.toc` from the `build` directory?