Hi Giovanni, Cameron,
I agree that the info is basically exact and covered in the wiki.
But I think augmenting this with a full example and lots of comments what
every piece does is a good thing to have.
cheers - Chris
On Friday, May 11, 2012 2:12:03 AM UTC+2, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
>
> Il giorno 08/mag/2012, alle ore 21:30, Cameron Seebach ha scritto:
>
> Hi Everybody!
>
> I report with a great deal of happiness that the development version of
> PyInstaller works very well with the latest version of PyGame. One file
> game deployment is now a reality for me! Thank you so much. :)
>
> I would add this to the "Supported Packages" page myself if I had the
> privileges. Here are the caveats:
>
> I get an an unknown error when using System Fonts (pygame.font.SysFont).
> Rather than spend the time trying to figure out the error, (I have a hunch
> it is something to do with paths relative to a C runtime), simply bundle a
> font with your game and use pygame.font.Font instead.
>
> The rest of these workarounds require that you build and modify your .spec
> file yourself. If you don't know how to do this already, in short, use
> utils\Makespec.py and utils\Build.py. The manual has good pointers on these.
>
> To bundle art resources with your game, the easiest way I've found is to
> insert a Tree entry with your art directory into the right place in the
> .spec file. For --onefile, that's the EXE entry. For --onedir, that's
> COLLECT.
>
> Tree('\\game\\res', prefix="res\\")
>
> When bundling resources (sprites, sounds, music) with your game, I run
> paths through the following code to make sure the right paths are found
> both when developing and when in deployment. Note this is only necessary
> for the --onefile distribution, which I prefer.
>
> def resource_path(relative):
> if hasattr(sys, "_MEIPASS"):
> return os.path.join(sys._MEIPASS, relative)
> return os.path.join(relative)
>
> Last, when I use the --noconsole option over here, PyInstaller thinks that
> I'm trying to build a Macintosh app, and sticks everything inside a
> "game.app" folder. This isn't really a problem, but if it annoys you,
> generate your .spec file without this option, and simply change the
> "console" argument to False inside EXE.
>
> Thanks again for such a wonderful project. I'm over the moon! :D
>
>
> Hi Cameron,
>
> what part of this is specific to PyGame? It looks like everything is
> covered by this:
> http://www.pyinstaller.org/wiki/Recipe/CollectDatafiles
>
> isn't it?
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> Develer S.r.l. :: http://www.develer.com
>
> My Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it
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