[Py2exe-users] Re: py2exe installer

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi Michael,

Did you see this sample in py2exe using Inno?

# A setup script showing how to extend py2exe.
#
# In this case, the py2exe command is subclassed to create an installation
# script for InnoSetup, which can be compiled with the InnoSetup compiler
# to a single file windows installer.
#
# By default, the installer will be created as dist\Output\setup.exe.

It is in samples/extending/setup.py

See you
Werner


Drumheller, Michael wrote:
> I am trying out py2exe for building a com server.  I am wondering if
> there is a quick way to make an installer for the resulting "dist" directory.
> 
> My setup.py file looks like this:
> 
>    from distutils.core import setup
>    import py2exe
>    setup(name="FooCOM",
>          <...snip name, email, etc...>
>          packages=['Foo'],
>          com_server=["Foo.FooCOM"])
> 
> I am invoking it as:  "python setup.py py2exe"  (No, Foo is not the real name.)
> 
> When this runs, I get a dist directory that contains everything I need.
> I was able to deliver it to a user who did not have any Python version
> installed on their machine.  They did a 'regsvr32 FooCOM.dll' and bang,
> they were up and running from VB.  (BTW the fact that this works so easily
> is totally fabulous--thank you Mark Hammond and Thomas Heller!)
> 
> The only thing is, I'd like to present a different storefront to my
> users, besides making them unzip a .zip file and call regsvr32 by hand.
> Is there a way to tell setup.py to create a standard "bdist_wininst"-
> style installer?
> 
> I have looked through the py2exe-users archives and found a couple of related
> notes, e.g. 
>   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10652798
> and 
>   http://bob.pythonmac.org/
> 
> Would it be correct to surmise from the second link above that the
> preferred way to do what I want is to first run py2exe and then use NSIS on
> it? (Is there not a way to tell setup or py2exe to do this for me?)
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Michael Drumheller
> M&CT--Mathematics and Engineering Analysis
> 425.865.3520 mic...@bo...
> 
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