RE: [pygame] Distributing games for Windows

RE: [pygame] Distributing games for Windows - Pynsist

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Subject: RE: [pygame] Distributing games for Windows - Pynsist

From: Yann Thorimbert <Yann.Thorimbert@xxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:33:35 +0000

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Hello,

This sounds nice, I will try soon. Until now, I've always used py2exe in order to provide "standalone" windows version of my python-pygame scripts. What are the pros and cons, in your opinion, to use py2exe or a method like pynsist ?

Thanks,

Yann

De : owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx <owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx> de la part de Thomas Kluyver <takowl@xxxxxxxxx>
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Objet : [pygame] Distributing games for Windows - Pynsist

I've mentioned this on the list before, but some changes since then have made it easier to use with Pygame.

Pynsist (https://pynsist.readthedocs.io/ ) is an open source tool to build Windows installers for Python applications. It's based on the popular NSIS installer system, which makes it possible to build installers even on Linux or Mac systems.

Pynsist can now download wheels from PyPI to include in an installer. Since pygame has (beta) Windows wheels, it's much easier to include Pygame in an installer than last time I posted here. Here's an example of building an installer for the 'aliens' example game:
https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/tree/master/examples/pygame

I'm happy to answer questions about it here, on Github, and on Stackoverflow (tag: pynsist).

Thanks,

Thomas