[Pythoncard-users] py2exe ( McMillan installer )

[Stefan K. <pon...@ya...>]

Just some notes for those trying to build stand alone apps.  I was able
to build a complete stand alone executable using the McMillan
installer, thanks to Phil Edwards for the invaluable documentation!

It is possible to use the McMillan installer to build a single
executable  ( using its 'onefile' option ) with the rsrc files
included, the Inno tool is not required.  Also this works on unix as
well as Windows.  The trick is to add the rsrc files to the EXE 'TOC'
class in the installer .spec file.  If you give the rsrc files in the
spec file a typecode of 'BINARY' ( rather than 'DATA' ) then they are
bundled in the .exe.  The exe is really a self extracting archive, all
the dependent dlls ( and now the rsrc files as well ) get unzipped into
a tmp dir when you run the .exe.  The location of this tmp directory is
available in os.environ['_MEIPASS2'], weird I know, but it works.  You
need then to pass that filename ( with the full path to the 'tmp' copy
of the rsrc ) to the Application() constructor.  Here is some sample
code..

from the Installer '.spec' file..

p = path_to_your_app
...
exe = EXE( pyz,
           a.scripts,
           a.binaries + [('YourFile.rsrc.py', p + 'YourFile.rsrc.py',
'BINARY' )],
           name='YourName.exe',
           debug=0,
           strip=0,
           upx=0,
           console=0,
           icon=p + 'yourfile.ico')


and then in your application code...

installer_dir = './'
if os.environ.has_key( '_MEIPASS2' ):
    installer_dir = os.environ['_MEIPASS2']
if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = model.Application(YourFile, installer_dir +
'YourFile.rsrc.py')
    app.MainLoop()


Also you have to have Mark Hammond's win2all extensions installed for
the icon assignment to work on windows.  The McMillian installer can be
found here..

http://paulbaranowski.org/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular

hope this helps someone out there..

S


		
__________________________________ 
Do you Yahoo!? 
Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. 
http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo