[Py2exe-users] extension module built but not found??

[Zachary P. <zp...@st...>]

Hello all,

(I sent out this email a while ago to no response. Forgive me for
trying again -- perhaps someone has some insight on this issue?)

I've got a project that I'm trying to bundle up with py2exe. One sub-
package includes a C extension that compiles into a .pyd file in the
build directory. Unfortunately, py2exe does not see this file and
complains about a missing module!

If, however, I move the .pyd file from the build directory into the
corresponding source directory, py2exe handles it happily. What's
going on here?

Here's my project layout, more or less:

project
    - setup.py
    - scripts
       [ contains console scripts for py2exe ]
    - package
       - foo.py, which imports foo_c
       - src
          [ C-language source files for foo_c ]

the setup.py file looks basically like this:

from distutils.core import setup, Extension
import py2exe
setup(
    name='project',
    packages=['package'],
    console = ['scripts\\foo.py', 'scripts\\bar.py']
    ext_modules=[Extension('package.foo_c',
      ['package\\src\\foo_c.c'])],
)

Now, during the build process, the file foo_c.pyd gets properly
created at:
project\build\lib.whatever\package\foo_c.pyd

However, py2exe complains that foo_c is missing!

If I manually copy foo_c.pyd from the build directory to:
project\package\foo_c.pyd
then py2exe works fine.

Am I missing anything obvious in the setup file?

Thanks,

Zach Pincus
Program in Biomedical Informatics and Department of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine