Re: [pygame] Streamlined Installation?

[Jasper Phillips <jasper@peak.org>]

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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Pete Shinners wrote:

> 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

Hrm.  This doesn't work for me. :-(  It apparently copies all .pyd files
needed into the same directory, overwriting in the case of two .pyd's with
the same name.  PyOpenGL has (at least) three different __init___.pyd's...

Someone must have run into this before...  Any advice on how to get around
this?  At the moment I'm looking into hacking py2exe, but I'd really
rather avoid that. :-/

- -Jasper

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