Import Error: DLL load failed while import pywintypes

[martinmiglio]

I have a GitHub action which build's releases for my project. It creates an MSI using this script below:

# find AutoHotKey.exe in Scripts folder
scripts_path = Path(sys.prefix) / "Scripts"
ahk_path = next(scripts_path.glob("AutoHotKey*.exe"))

build_exe_options = {
    "excludes": ["test", "setuptools"],
    "include_files": [ahk_path],
}

bdist_msi_options = {
    "upgrade_code": UPGRADE_CODE,
    "add_to_path": False,
    "initial_target_dir": f"[ProgramFilesFolder]\\{PROJECT_NAME}",
    "summary_data": {
        "author": AUTHOR,
        "comments": DESCRIPTION,
        "keywords": KEYWORDS,
    },
}

exe = Executable(
    script=ENTRY_POINT,
    base="Win32GUI" if GUI else None,
    shortcut_name=f"{PROJECT_NAME} {VERSION}",
    shortcut_dir="DesktopFolder",
    target_name=f"{PROJECT_NAME}.exe",
    copyright=COPYRIGHT,
    icon=ICON_PATH,
)

setup(
    name=PROJECT_NAME,
    description=DESCRIPTION,
    executables=[exe],
    options={
        "bdist_msi": bdist_msi_options,
        "build_exe": build_exe_options,
    },
)

When I build this locally inside my devel environment, I can make an installer which will install my project correctly, but when built with the GitHub action, when the program is executed after install, it leads to an error:

During debugging, I've found that the same DLL's are inside the MSI when extracted and are installed into the program folder. I cannot find a solution to this.