Fwd: [pygame] Problems with py2exe and Pygame

["Patrick Mullen" <saluk64007@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes my setup script uses py2exe on windows and cx_freeze on linux,
while keeping the data movement code generally shared for either
system.  So it is all in one nice, portable setup file.  Of course, I
really am a loser.  Instead of using shutil, I wrote all of my own
shell functions :)

To answer the actual question...
We really need to see what code is breaking to know what is wrong
here.  I think you may need to specify an actual named font rather
than relying on the default one, in order to pick up the ttf in the
exe directory.  Uh, one more thing.  Try manually putting the font
into library.zip.

You'll be safest to manually load the font yourself though, with the
pygame.Font function.

On Dec 4, 2007 1:57 PM, Casey Duncan <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Joe Johnston wrote:
>
> > hwg wrote:
> >> I'm trying to make an exe of a simple Pygame program.
> >>  Here's the setup.py <http://setup.py/>:
> >>      from distutils.core import setup
> >>     import py2exe, pygame
> >>     import glob, shutil
> >>     setup(windows=["lunarlander.py <http://lunarlander.py/>"])
> >> shutil.copyfile('moonsurface.png', 'dist/moonsurface.png')
> >>     shutil.copyfile('lunarlander2.png', 'dist/lunarlander2.png')
> >>     shutil.copyfile('C:/Python25/Lib/site-packages/pygame/
> >> freesansbold.ttf',
> >>     'dist/freesansbold.ttf')
> >
> > Maybe I'm a loser, but I generally keep the setup.py script short.
> > If I've got to move files, I do that from a bat script which can
> > call my Windows installer compiler too (inno, my case).
>
> A good reason to keep this stuff in python (regardless of whether it
> is in setup.py or not) is portability. bat files only work on
> Windows. But then again, absolute paths (especially ones that use
> drive letters) are highly non-portable anyhow no matter what language
> they're in (even on different machines that are running Windows).
>
> -Casey
>