[pygame] pygame2exe

[Christopher Night <cosmologicon@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm completely unfamiliar with Windows, and I'm finding it so much harder to use than Linux. I feel like a complete idiot trying to compile something to exe. I did manage to get a Hello World script compiled okay, but I can't get a simple test pygame script to compile. I used the pygame2exe script here:

http://www.pygame.org/wiki/Pygame2exe

I put it in a directory with my test script test.py, changed the stuff in BuildExe.__init__, and ran it in IDLE. It seemed to work for a while, but eventually died with this traceback:

*** finding dlls needed ***

*** create binaries ***

*** byte compile python files ***

writing byte-compilation script 'c:\users\christ~1\appdata\local\temp\tmplkizod.py'

C:\Python26\pythonw.exe -OO c:\users\christ~1\appdata\local\temp\tmplkizod.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:/Users/christopher/Desktop/pygame-test/pygame2exe.py", line 155, in <module>

    BuildExe().run() #Run generation

  File "C:/Users/christopher/Desktop/pygame-test/pygame2exe.py", line 146, in run

    dist_dir = self.dist_dir

  File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\core.py", line 169, in setup

    raise SystemExit, "error: " + str(msg)

SystemExit: error: command 'C:\Python26\pythonw.exe' failed with exit status 1

Am I even on the right track? Is py2exe the best tool to use for compiling pygame-based programs, and if so, is this the right script to use? If so, what's with the error I'm getting? I'm hopeless debugging anything in Windows. When I try running that line (C:\Python26\pythonw.exe -OO c:\users\christ~1\appdata\local\temp\tmplkizod.py), it just exits without any output, leaving me with no clue what the problem is. Any advice at all would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Christopher