Re: [Py2exe-users] [help] Is it possible to build exe on Windows 7 and deploy on Vista and XP using py2exe ?

[He J. <he...@gm...>]

Sorry for the confusion of "portable". I mean the users can use the program
without installation.
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He Jibo
Department of Psychology,
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign,
603 East Daniel St.,
Champaign, IL 61820
website: http://hejibo.appspot.com/file/index.html



On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Werner F. Bruhin <wer...@fr...>wrote:

>  On 16/01/2011 11:25, He Jibo wrote:
>
> Thanks for your quick reply. Is there a solution of the .dll file problem
> without using InnoSetup? I wish to make my software portable, so my users
> do not need to install the software.
>
> Portable to what?  py2exe is "only" windows compatible.
>
> Anyhow you don't have to use InnoSetup, you can use any installer.
>
> Werner
>
>  ---------------------------
> He Jibo
> Department of Psychology,
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign,
> 603 East Daniel St.,
> Champaign, IL 61820
> website: http://hejibo.appspot.com/file/index.html
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Werner F. Bruhin <wer...@fr...>wrote:
>
>>  On 16/01/2011 09:46, He Jibo wrote:
>> > Hi, everyone,
>> >
>> > I need your help with deploying .exe files. I created a software using
>> > packages including PySide, lxml, BeautifulSoup etc. I have successfully
>> > built it under windows 7, and been able to run it in the same windows 7
>> > machine. But I can not run the .exe program under Windows XP. I have not
>> > tested in Windows Vista yet, but I need it to work under Vista too.
>> > The error message I got under Windows XP is as follows:
>> > **
>> > *"the procedure entry point_except_handler4_common could not be located
>> > in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll"*
>> > *
>> > *
>> > *Can someone help me how to build exe on windows 7 and deploy on vista
>> > and xp? Thanks. *
>> > *
>> > *
>> > I have tried methods as suggested by the following links, but it does
>> > not work.
>> >
>> http://www.devcomments.com/q448413/Is-possible-to-build-exe-on-Vista-and-deploy-on-XP-using-py2exe
>> >
>> http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/730751-py2exe-other-exe-builder-vista-system-vista-xp-install-targets
>> > *
>> > *
>> > *My setup.py for py2exe is as follows:*
>> > *
>> > *
>> > *
>> > '''
>> > http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/5H3d11fesgvZXKvrYblh
>> > '''
>> > # Used successfully in Python2.5 with matplotlib 0.91.2 and PyQt4 (and
>> > Qt 4.3.3)
>> > from distutils.core import setup
>> > import py2exe
>> > #import mechanize
>> >
>> >
>> > # We need to import the glob module to search for all files.
>> > import glob
>> >
>> > # We need to exclude matplotlib backends not being used by this
>> > executable.  You may find
>> > # that you need different excludes to create a working executable with
>> > your chosen backend.
>> > # We also need to include include various numerix libraries that the
>> > other functions call.
>> >
>> > opts = {
>> > 'py2exe': { "includes" : ["sip"],
>> > 'excludes': ['_gtkagg', '_tkagg', '_agg2', '_cairo', '_cocoaagg',
>> > '_fltkagg', '_gtk', '_gtkcairo', ],
>> > 'dll_excludes': ['libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll',
>> > 'libgobject-2.0-0.dll'],
>> > 'packages': ['lxml','pyquery','mechanize','reportlab'],
>> >
>> >                }
>> >         }
>> >
>> > # Save matplotlib-data to mpl-data ( It is located in the
>> > matplotlib\mpl-data
>> > # folder and the compiled programs will look for it in \mpl-data
>> > # note: using matplotlib.get_mpldata_info
>> >
>> >
>> > # for console program use 'console = [{"script" : "scriptname.py"}]
>> > setup(name="Top Ten Rank 1.2",
>> >        version="1.1",
>> >        description = " Top Ten Rank 1.2",
>> >
>> >        author="He, Jibo",
>>  >        author_email="he...@gm... <mailto:he...@gm...>",
>> >        url="http://www.ueseo.org",
>> > #      zipfile = True,
>> >        windows=[{"script" :
>> > "TopTenRank.py",'icon_resources':[(1,"top10ranking.ico")]}],
>> options=opts)
>> >
>> >
>>  No problem in creating exe on Windows 7 and distributing it to other
>> Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 Systems.
>>
>> I can't recall having seen the exact error you get but I guess that the
>> test machine does not have all the .dll's you need for your application.
>>
>> There are a few useful pages on the wxPython wiki, most of it should
>> apply for you too.
>>
>> http://wiki.wxpython.org/Deployment
>> http://wiki.wxpython.org/py2exe
>>
>> msvcrt.dll is the MS runtime for C++ 4.2 to 6.0, newer ones are named
>> msvcrtXX.dll (XX is 80, 90) you need to include these in your installer
>> (e.g. InnoSetup) and install them to the correct place or have the
>> appropriate MS runtime installer run by your user.
>>
>> I consider that they are part of Python xx (or for msvcrt.dll I guess is
>> used by QT) and consider that I can distribute it, but I am not a lawyer
>> so you might want to research this a bit (there have been threads on
>> this problem on this list).
>>
>> Hope this helps
>> Werner
>>
>>
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