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: Jorge Maldonado Ventura <jorgesumle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:52:47 +0200

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On 2016-10-25 11:40, Thomas Kluyver wrote:

Hi Jorge,

On 25 October 2016 at 00:00, Jorge Maldonado Ventura <jorgesumle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here is what I got, but I want to distribute just one executable file; can I do that with your program?

~/Code/Repos/bullet_dodger_stable/build/nsis $ ls -l
total 49272
drwxr-xr-x 2 jorge jorge     4096 Oct 24 18:57 assets
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 21111344 Oct 24 19:05 Bullet_dodger_1.6.10.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge     1293 Oct 24 19:05 Bullet_dodger.launch.pyw
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge      790 Oct 24 18:56 bullet.ico
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge     6344 Oct 24 19:05 installer.nsi
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge    34570 Oct 24 18:52 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x 4 jorge jorge     4096 Oct 24 19:05 pkgs
drwxr-xr-x 2 jorge jorge     4096 Oct 24 19:05 Python
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 29269656 Oct 24 19:00 python-3.5.2.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge     2360 Oct 24 18:48 windowsversion.nsh

"Bullet_dodger_1.6.10.exe" is the only file you need to distribute; the others were involved in building that. However, it is an installer - so when the user double clicks it, they will get a standard installation wizard to set up your game. Pynsist does not make an exe that runs your game directly.

Thomas

I tried the installer I created, but it didn't work. Apparently it installs correctly, but it doesn't launch the game. I'm using a Windows 8 virtual machine. I tried to debug, but I have no idea in Windows. I observed that the program in the Windows menu links to a file called pythonw when installed, how can I get the error message that helps me understand and solve the problem. Is there a way to test or debug the installer in GNU/Linux?

Here is the installer.cfg file I used to build the executable:

[Application]
name=Bullet dodger
version=1.6.10
# How to launch the app - this calls the 'main' function from the 'myapp' package:
entry_point=bullet_dodger.main:start_screen
icon=bullet_dodger/assets/bullet.ico

[Python]
version=3.5.2
bitness=32
format=bundled

[Include]
# Importable packages that your application requires, one per line
pypi_wheels= pygame==1.9.2b1

# Other files and folders that should be installed
files = LICENSE

And here is my game: https://notabug.org/jorgesumle/bullet_dodger