6 files, 72 ***KB***, uncompressed and uncompiled. Add another 97KB if
you want to include freesansbold.ttf.
I understand it needs a pile of other modules to function properly as an
EXE but I believe the 7MB pile is far too big.
Tcl... irrelevant to the game.
CD ROM... ditto
SSL... ditto
Movie... why?
The list goes on...
I see reasonably well packaged windows binaries on pygame.org and I am
curious about how its done.
Peter Shinners wrote:
Python itself will load many modules at startup, besides what your game
uses. Things like "warnings" are needed to run, and that in turn
requires "re" and a pile of others.
The bundled Python should only be about 1-2 MB once compressed. How big
is your game if you just zip it? I'm guessing about 5 MB. The py2exe
installer for Solarwolf is only 3 MB, and that is 90% game.
Chris wrote:
py2exe is overkill on the standard instructions.
As far as python is concerned, I know which modules I need because I
imported them--pygame, random and os. The output, however, seems to
give me every module on my python 2.5.2 setup.
Has anyone on this list written a py2exe setup script to get something
more... sensible? My 7MB binary dist directory works* but 7 megabytes
is far and away too big for my game.
Would I use include to compile only the modules I need or do I need to
makes a lengthy exclude list?
