Re: [Py2exe-users] Project with dependencies that have non .py files

[Werner <wer...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 3/14/2015 15:22, Terry Chia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am attempting to package a py2exe app that relies on a third party
> dependency that has non .py files. In this case it is a .c/.h file that
> gets compiled at build time.
>
> The .c/.h files is opened by a .py file with the following snippet.
>
>      with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "src/padding.h"))
> as f:
>
> Everything works fine running Python normally but falls apart upon
> py2exe packaging because the .c and .h files goes missing. I found some
> documentation[0] that shows how to get arbitrary files packaged under
> py2exe but that does not work if the non .py files are in the
> dependencies instead of the project being packaged.
>
> Is there a solution to this? I am open to having changes being made to
> the setup.py files of the dependencies if required.
>
> [0]: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/AddingConfigFiles
How are you adding these .h/.c files?

It should work if you use the 'data_files' option shown in the link you 
give, but you might have to make sure the path you use in your code is 
correct.

Werner