Re: [Py2exe-users] Can't seem to figure it out

[John M. <sjm...@le...>]

On 19/12/2006 2:57 AM, Toon Pieton wrote:
> Hey all!
> 
> I'm trying to make a quite big program of mine into a .exe file. After 
> trying four tutorials, I still havn't been able to create a .exe file 
> from a .py file. I figured out that that might be because I didn't add 
> my imports to the setup script. So, I wrote a print weee script, and 
> tried to make a .exe file out of it. Even with this script, I didnt 
> achieve my goals.
> 
> The script is named test.py and is in the same directory as my setup.py 
> script.
> 
> setup.py script:
> from distutils.core import setup
> import py2exe
> 
> setup(name='FileName',
>       description="A brief description",
>       version='0.0.1',
>       scripts=['test.py'])
> 
> Then, I use "Run: cmd" to start a command prompt, browse to the map in 
> which I saved both scripts, and run this command:
> setup.py build

Please re-read the four tutorials carefully. If you find any one of them 
that tells you to do that to create an exe, please tell us.

You should be doing this:

setup.py py2exe

> 
> This is the output I get:
> running build
> running build_scripts
> creating build
> creating build\scripts-2.5
> copying test.py -> build\scripts-2.5
> 
> I look in the build directory, no exe file, just a copy of my script in 
> scripts-2.5. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> And a question for future reference: do I need to add imported modules 
> the setup script? If yes, how?

py2exe can usually find your imported modules. Don't stress out until it 
can't. Then read the tutorials and/or the archive of this list :-)

HTH,
John