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[Visualpython-users] VPython standalone installation

[Bruce P. <bap...@te...>]

Has anyone had any experience in making distributable VPython programs (a 
single exe in windows)? I've tried the Mcmillan and py2exe installers with 
out much luck. The Mcmillan installer makes the .exe file which dies as 
soon as it is run (I'm using the stonehenge example for testing). Py2exe 
won't even compile (from the error messages I'd guess its a 2.3 problem not 
Vpython).


Bruce Peterson, Ph.D.
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Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython standalone installation

[Arthur <aj...@op...>]

> Has anyone had any experience in making distributable VPython programs (a
> single exe in windows)? I've tried the Mcmillan and py2exe installers with
> out much luck. The Mcmillan installer makes the .exe file which dies as
> soon as it is run (I'm using the stonehenge example for testing). Py2exe
> won't even compile (from the error messages I'd guess its a 2.3 problem
not
> Vpython).

Good news and bad news.

Good news - it's quite achievable.

At:

http://www.dstoys.com/content/education/index_html/Visual%20Arts/Interactive

is a proof of concept using the Vpythons Towers of Hanoi demo.

Bad news:

I did it some time ago, and lost the trail of exactly how I did it.  I do
seem to remember that a necessary trick was renaming the __init__.py file in
the visual directory to visual.py.  I think you can unzip the exe included
in the sample above and see its contents - which should give you some good
clues.  I'll look closer if and whn I get a chance, and see what memeories I
can recover.

Art