On 2016-10-24 18:39, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> I've mentioned this on the list before, but some changes since then have made > it easier to use with Pygame. > > Pynsist (https://pynsist.readthedocs.io/ [1] ) is an open source tool to > build Windows installers for Python applications. It's based on the popular > NSIS installer system, which makes it possible to build installers even on > Linux or Mac systems. > > Pynsist can now download wheels from PyPI to include in an installer. Since > pygame has (beta) Windows wheels, it's much easier to include Pygame in an > installer than last time I posted here. Here's an example of building an > installer for the 'aliens' example game: > https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/tree/master/examples/pygame [2] > > I'm happy to answer questions about it here, on Github, and on Stackoverflow > (tag: pynsist). > > Thanks, > Thomas Hello, Thomas I tried to make an executable for my game Bullet dodger following the example you linked to. Here is what I got, but I want to distribute just one executable file; can I do that with your program? ~/Code/Repos/bullet_dodger_stable/build/nsis $ ls -l total 49272 drwxr-xr-x 2 jorge jorge 4096 Oct 24 18:57 assets -rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 21111344 Oct 24 19:05 Bullet_dodger_1.6.10.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1293 Oct 24 19:05 Bullet_dodger.launch.pyw -rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 790 Oct 24 18:56 bullet.ico -rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 6344 Oct 24 19:05 installer.nsi -rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 34570 Oct 24 18:52 LICENSE drwxr-xr-x 4 jorge jorge 4096 Oct 24 19:05 pkgs drwxr-xr-x 2 jorge jorge 4096 Oct 24 19:05 Python -rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 29269656 Oct 24 19:00 python-3.5.2.exe -rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 2360 Oct 24 18:48 windowsversion.nsh I thought that bundled option meant one .exe file, but maybe I made the installer.cfg wrong, any help is really appreciated: [Application] name=Bullet dodger version=1.6.10 # How to launch the app - this calls the 'main' function from the 'myapp' package: entry_point=bullet_dodger.main:start_screen icon=bullet_dodger/assets/bullet.ico [Python] version=3.5.2 bitness=32 format=bundled [Include] # Importable packages that your application requires, one per line pypi_wheels= pygame==1.9.2b1 # Other files and folders that should be installed files = LICENSE bullet_dodger/assets Links: ------ [1] https://pynsist.readthedocs.io/ [2] https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/tree/master/examples/pygame
