I have no experience with cx_freeze, but the page on packaging
matplotlib with py2exe may be relevant. You do need to find a way to
convince cx_freeze to include the data files and then a way for
matplotlib to find them at run time.
Mike
Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to build executables from python scripts that call matplotlib under
> linux. To this end I have installed cxfreeze on my
> SuSE 11.2 machine
>
> I have tried two methods
> 1. Execute the command 'cxfreeze script.py'
> and
> 2. Creating a setup.py script
> import cx_Freeze
> import sys
> base = None
> if sys.platform == "win32":
> base = "Win32GUI"
>
> executables = [
> cx_Freeze.Executable("script.py", base = base)
> ]
> cx_Freeze.setup(
> name = "script",
> version = "0.1",
> description = "Sample matplotlib script",
> executables = executables)
> and then execute 'python setup.py build'
>
> In both cases I get an executable, but when executed I get the following error
> RuntimeError: Could not find the matplotlib data files
>
> The version of matplotlib I am running is 0.99.1.1 and Python 2.6.2
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions to resolve this, thanks
>
>
> Peter
>
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