Re: [pygame] py2exe

[Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

D. Hartley wrote:
> Hello, everyone!
>
> Has anyone used py2exe with pygame games? I have managed to get it

These are my own notes on the subject:

In the main Python directory, run:

python setup.py py2exe

Where setup.py consists of:

# setup.py
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=["MyProgram.py"])

And where all your .py files are in the main Python directory itself.

Mysterious errors I've seen:
-On running Py2exe, "The following modules appear to be missing: 
Foundation, dotblas, objc." These don't seem to matter; I think they're 
only used on Macs. Solution: Ignore.
-Run-time error: Invalid Tcl version, eg: "Version conflict -- have 8.4, 
need 8.3." In this case the user had a programming language called Ruby 
installed, which apparently jam's Tkinter, Python's version of/interface 
to Tk, an interface system. (By the way, Python's IDE, IDLE, is itself 
written in Tkinter, which can cause annoying problems in itself when 
working with Tkinter.) Solution: Delete Ruby.
-Run-time error: Something about fonts. Voodoo solution: Find 
"FREESANSBOLD.TTF" in your Windows directory and copy it into the dist 
directory.
-Run-time error: Segmentation fault involving Pygame's "sndarray.pyc." 
Solution: Destroy Python's "dist" and "build" directories, which 
probably are being used to load all sorts of gunk from other programs 
you've written into this EXE and somehow interfering with it.
-Run-time error: Can't load file. If you have media like graphics and 
music, make sure they're all there in the dist directory with whatever 
directory structure you tested the program in.

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I don't use any fancy setup.py for Pygame projects. I just build the 
EXE, then transfer any relevant media files to the Dist directory manually.

Have you tried building a minimal Pygame program (eg. "import pygame; 
pygame.init(); print "Foo!") into an EXE?

Kris