svtplay-dl 4.97 does not work on Windows 7 because of cryptograhy v43. time to drop support win7?

[spaam]

For some reason cryptography doesn't work on windows 7 anymore after their v43 version.

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _rust: The specified procedure could not be found.

how to deal with this? i dont know. this only affecting windows 7 ( and maybe win 8 ). it works fine on win11.

1. using fixed version of cryptography for windows? that feels like a mess going to happen sooner or later. i dont like the idea to have a fixed version of a specific library that all platforms use.
2. drop support for win7? i have no idea how many people use windows 7 and svtplay-dl. microsoft support ended 4.5 years ago. I can't test stuff since i dont have access to a windows 7 system. 🤔

[Sopor]

Add a message if the user try to run it on lower Windows than 10.

This application only support Windows 10 and higher ...

[posktomten]

Probably not many people use Windows 7. But it works with Python 3.8
https://bin.ceicer.com/svtplay-dl/Windows/

[spaam]

yeah python version is not the issue.
the issue is cryptography v43 dropped their support for windows 7. when we load the crypto stuff it just crashes.

[posktomten]

Hmm. I have Windows 7 64-bit as a virtual computer in Virtual Box and it actually works.

[spaam]

you are leaving out a bunch of info in your comment.
what version are you using? version of cryptography? how did you install svtplay-dl?
are you sure you are running windows 7?

[SweDennis]

Didn't see that one coming ... That today was the day that I would re-install win7 just to verify something ... (Living on the edge)

[posktomten]

Built with
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Version 22H2 OS build 19045.4717
svtplay-dl 4.97.1
python 3.8.5
cryptography 39.0.0

Windows 10 Pro 32-bit Version 22H2 build 19045.4651
svtplay-dl 4.97.1
python 3.8.5
cryptography 39.0.0

Running on
Windows Professional 7 64-bit Service Pack 1

[spaam]

@posktomten you are using an old version of cryptography. That is fine. We talking about version 43+. 42 and older is fine.

[posktomten]

Yes, I understand this.
"pip" thought cryptography 39.0.0 was the latest version. On Windows 10, python 3.8.5.