Re: [cx-freeze-users] Error report

[Anthony T. <ant...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Dick Moores <rdm...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Anthony Tuininga
> <ant...@gm...> wrote:
>> So my suspicion was correct. :-) You will need to have TCL installed
>
> Of course I have tcl installed. You mean the friend I had do the testing?

Certainly. Naturally you would have TCL installed as you were not
getting the error. :-)

>> or you will need to copy the tcl/tcl8.4 and tcl/tk8.4 to one of the
>> directories in question.
>
> Those directories are on my friend's computer. :)

You're saying that TCL *is* installed on your friend's computer? Then
I guess the Python wrapping of TCL deliberately avoids looking in the
normal locations for such things. Hmm, interesting.

>>Its unfortunate that TCL doesn't
>> automatically search the directory or a subdirectory of the location
>> where the executable is found or you could use the "include-files"
>> option of cx_Freeze to perform the copy for you.
>
> I could find no 'include-files' option in the manual at
> <E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\cx_Freeze.html>, so I used
> this as my setup.py:

Sorry. This is a new option available in the trunk of Subversion, not
yet released. I hope to make a new release shortly.

> =====================================
> #! /usr/bin/env python
> #coding=utf-8
> #setup.py
>
> import cx_Freeze
>
> includes = ['E:\Python25\tcl\tcl8.4', 'E:\Python25\tcl\tk8.4']
>
> cx_Freeze.setup(
>       name = "randomTriangles_wo_named_colors",
>       version = "0.1",
>       description = "Random Triangles Without Named Colors",
>       author = "Dick Moores",
>       options = dict(build_exe = dict(includes = includes)),
>       executables =
> [cx_Freeze.Executable("randomTriangles_wo_named_colors.py")])
> ===================================================
>
> And ran
>
> E:\PythonWork\cx_Freeze_packages>python setup.py build
> running build
> running build_exe
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "setup.py", line 15, in <module>
>    executables = [cx_Freeze.Executable("randomTriangles_wo_named_colors.py")])
>  File "E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\dist.py", line 266, in setup
>    distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
>  File "E:\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
>    dist.run_commands()
>  File "E:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
>    self.run_command(cmd)
>  File "E:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
>    cmd_obj.run()
>  File "E:\Python25\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run
>    self.run_command(cmd_name)
>  File "E:\Python25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
>    self.distribution.run_command(command)
>  File "E:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
>    cmd_obj.run()
>  File "E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\dist.py", line 153, in run
>    freezer.Freeze()
>  File "E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 387, in Freeze
>    self.finder = self._GetModuleFinder()
>  File "E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 245,
> in _GetModuleFinder
>    finder.IncludeModule(name)
>  File "E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 336,
> in IncludeModule
>    module = self._ImportModule(name, deferredImports)
>  File "E:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 159,
> in _ImportModule
>    raise ImportError, "No module named %s" % name
> ImportError: No module named E:\Python25\tcl\tcl8.4
> ============================================
>
> So how to fix up setup.py?
> It seems to want modules in the list in
> include = []

Yes, this is for modules. You need to use the other option to include
files, like this:

includeFiles = [
    ( r"E:\Python25\tcl\tcl8.4", "tcl"),
    ( r"E:\Python25\tcl\tk8.4", "tk")
]

Then, in the same location where includes is specified, specify
include_files = includeFiles. When there are enough of these, it is
often helpful to do this instead:

buildOptions = dict(
    includes = includes,
    include_files = includeFiles)

cx_Freeze.setup(
       name = "randomTriangles_wo_named_colors",
       version = "0.1",
       description = "Random Triangles Without Named Colors",
       author = "Dick Moores",
       options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
       executables =
[cx_Freeze.Executable("randomTriangles_wo_named_colors.py")])

Of course, none of this will help without also setting the environment
variables TCL_LIBRARY and TK_LIBRARY to point to the locations where
TCL and TK reside. I have added this into the initscripts and checked
those in so if you grab the latest from Subversion this will be done
for you already.

With these steps completed I was able to successfully run a frozen
application on a computer without Python or TCL installed. Hope this
helps.

Anthony

> Dick
>
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