I am trying to bundle up a GTK+2 app on Win32 which uses PyGTK (from Cedric's pygtk installer). I have tried py2exe, cx_Freeze, and Gordon McMillan's Installer, but I can't seem to make a working standalone .exe file with any of them.I posted the following message to this list a couple of months ago, but I'm not sure it made it. Anyway, here it is again. Hope it helps.
Ok, here are some very rough notes on creating a self-executing installer of your pygtk app for Windows. I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but this works for me.
1.) Install py2exe and Inno Setup.
2.) Add os.environ['PATH'] += ";gtk/lib;gtk/bin" to top of your script.
3.) Create an executable of your app using py2exe. This is going to take a lot of trial and error, because, although the exe will probably work on your original machine, when you move it to a "clean" machine, you invariably will be missing a module that py2exe did not automatically include. Not to worry! Py2exe give you various ways to manually include missing modules. It's going to take some tweaking, but you will get there. Here is an example of the command line that I use for my app:
python setup.y py2exe --force --excludes gtk, gobject,pango --packages pyPgSQL --icon fred6.ico
Here's what my setup.py script looks like:
from distutils.core import setup import py2exe import glob
setup(name="fredgui",
scripts=["fredgui.pyw"],
data_files=[(".",glob.glob("*.bmp")),(".",glob.glob("*.gif")),
(".",glob.glob("*.png")),(".",glob.glob("*.jpg")),
(".",glob.glob("*.ico")),(".",glob.glob("*.xpm")),
(".",glob.glob("../../jgcmodules/*.py"))],
)4). Ok, now that I have a exe for my app, I need to copy some directories to the "dist/fredgui" directory that py2exe created to hold my app. I copy everything below c:\program files\common files\GTK\2.0 to a "gtk" directory under my dist/fredgui directory. I also copy all of the pygtk files (and included subdirectories), from my python disribution, into my dist/fredgui directory.
5.) Now, we turn to Inno Setup. Here is a copy of my Inno script:
; Script generated by the Inno Setup Script Wizard. ; SEE THE DOCUMENTATION FOR DETAILS ON CREATING INNO SETUP SCRIPT FILES!
[Setup] AppName=Fred Administrator - Python AppVerName=Fred Administrator - Python - 2.0 AppPublisher=NetPro Technologies, LLC AppPublisherURL=http://www.netpromi.com AppSupportURL=http://www.netpromi.com AppUpdatesURL=http://www.netpromi.com DefaultDirName={pf}\fredpython DefaultGroupName=Fred Administrator - Python
[Tasks]
Name: "desktopicon"; Description: "Create a &desktop icon"; GroupDescription: "Additional icons:"
[Files]
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\fredgui.exe"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\woman.ico"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\_socket.pyd"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\_sre.pyd"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\application.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\atk.pyd"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\batch_save.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\configure.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\debug.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\exec.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\exit.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\fred6.gif"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\fred6.ico"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\get_index.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\gobject.pyd"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\grid.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_aboutwin.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_browse.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_busycursor.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_database.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_editdaterange.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_editrec.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_editwin.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_errorwin.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_mainmenu.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_notebookwin.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\jgc_table.py"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\libpq.pyd"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\list_box.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\mail_image.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\mxDateTime.pyd"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\pango.pyd"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\preview.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\print.png"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\print.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\pygtk.pyc"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\pygtk.pyo"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\python22.dll"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\quit.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\run.xpm"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\tools.gif"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\gtk\*.*"; DestDir: "{app}\gtk"; Flags: ignoreversion recursesubdirs
Source: "C:\work\python\fred2\fredgui\dist\fredgui\pyPgSQL\*.*"; DestDir: "{app}\pyPgSQL"; Flags: ignoreversion recursesubdirs
; NOTE: Don't use "Flags: ignoreversion" on any shared system files
[Icons]
Name: "{group}\Fred Administrator - Python"; Filename: "{app}\fredgui.exe"; WorkingDir: "{app}"
Name: "{group}\Uninstall Fred Administrator - Python"; Filename: "{uninstallexe}"
Name: "{userdesktop}\Fred Administrator - Python"; Filename: "{app}\fredgui.exe"; Tasks: desktopicon; WorkingDir: "{app}"
[Run]
Filename: "{app}\fredgui.exe"; Description: "Launch Fred Administrator - Python"; Flags: nowait postinstall skipifsilent
6.) I compile the script and it creates a setup.exe. Copy this to a "clean" machine and run it. It should install the app, create desktop icon, start menu icons, etc. Try to run the app. If it doesn't work, chances are that you are missing a module that didn't get included in either py2exe or Inno setup. One cheezy way to debug it is to initially create the executable in py2exe as a console app (using the --console flag in py2exe). This means that, even though the app is a gui, it will still open a dos box when it runs on the target machine. This will alllow you to see the error message that gets generated when it bombs out on the clean machine.
7). Don't give up. It will probably take several tries, but eventually you will end up with a working executable on the clean machine!
Note: The above instructions are an EXTREMELY cheezy way to accomplish the task of creating a self-installing pygtk app. I'm sure that there are many more efficient ways of doing this. Also, my knowledge of py2exe and Inno setup is VERY limited, so I'm sure that there are things that could be done much better using these tools.
I hope these notes have been helpful (and that I didn't forget any steps!).
Jamey Cribbs
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