On 4/15/10, Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16/04/2010 10:52 AM, Alex Hall wrote: >> 1. Is there a way to start with no command line window popping up? My >> main script is a pyw, but it still shows a dos window when the >> generated .exe file is clicked. Leaving out the "console" parameter of >> setup, though, results in no .exe file at all, so I had to put it >> back. I want what I have heard called a "silent startup", where the >> program starts but it does not pop up anything. My users will know >> because I will speak a message, but I want to dump the dos window. > > You probably want to use the 'windows=' option instead of the 'console=' > option (or both if you like - in which case you probably also need to > specify a 'dest_base' value for one of them. Yes, that did it! > >> 2. Is there a way to put the exe in a higher-level dir, then put all >> the pyd, dll, zip, and other files into a subdirectory so the .exe is >> not mixed in with all these files that most users will not care about? >> Thank you for all your help over the last few days!! > > I *think* that if you specify the 'zipfile' param to include a directory > portion then all libs will be stored in that same dir. Eg, spambayes > includes: > > zipfile = "lib/spambayes.modules", > > which causes the .zip file to be named as specified, but all the .pyd > files also wind up in the 'lib' directory. Use of the 'dest_base' param > causes all executables to be placed in a 'bin' directory, so we have 2 > separate dirs holding things. I found that setting zipfile to None gets rid of an unnecessary (as far as I can tell) .zip file; specifying another name did not do anything, though it did not give me an error either. > Spambayes has a complicated setup file > which may offer some insights - find the spambayes source at sourceforge > then look for the spambayes/spambayes/windows/py2exe/setup_all.py file > for inspiration...
Oddly, I set the --bundle flag to 1, then 2, but in both cases my program had a memory error. When the bundle flag was left out, I have no errors and things work as expected. In either case, though, I get a dist folder of nearly 21mb in size, much larger than I ever imagined! I use wx, wmi, win32con, and ctypes (and other libs, but they are small). Is there any way of optimizing things so that I can get the overall size down some? > > HTH, Yes, it helped a lot. > > Mark. > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
