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Re: [pygame] Streamlined Installation?

Jasper Phillips wrote:

What does Pygame use to create it's installation packages?  I'd like to do
something similar myself, as I want to show the game I've been working on to
a bunch of busy people, and fear that needing to install 4 libraries, set
path, etc. will put people off.
for python itself i just use 'distutils', which is the python utility that compiles all of pygame and can also make various packages and installers.

for the different 'window binary' games that people have been using for pygame, most use the "PY2EXE" script, which is a little hairy to use, but gets good results in the end. i have a 'helper' script which assists in getting all the proper arguments passed to py2exe.
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame2exe.py

py2exe creates a subdirectory with everything needed to run your game standalone. from there you can zip or use one of the more exciting free installer tools out there. for testing the zip is probably easiest. for real releases, most people like to use the free INNO Setup tool which handles all the installer/uninstaller/startmenu stuff for you.

i have a short little tutorial online with more information about building the actual executable. http://pygame.org/docs/tut/Executable.html