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visual studio redistributable

See original GitHub issue

Currently, the windows version of glfw needs to have the VC redistributable installed or else it fails with an error when you attempt to use it. Would you be willing to redistribute the DLL inside the windows wheel?

For the x64 version this looks like copying msvcr110.dll from c:\windows\system32 to the package directory, then modifying this code: https://github.com/FlorianRhiem/pyGLFW/blob/master/glfw/library.py#L161 to look something like this:

elif sys.platform == 'win32':
    # try glfw3.dll using windows search paths
    try:
        glfw = ctypes.CDLL('glfw3.dll')
    except OSError:
        # try glfw3.dll in package directory
        try:
            glfw = ctypes.CDLL(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'glfw3.dll'))
        except OSError:
            # try glfw3.dll with included VC redistributable
            os.environ["PATH"] = os.environ["PATH"] + ";" + os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
            try:
                glfw = ctypes.CDLL('glfw3.dll')
            except OSError:
                glfw = None

It looks like you are explicitly allowed to redistribute the redistributable DLLs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/determining-which-dlls-to-redistribute?view=vs-2019