So i made a small game using pygame, and I want to be able to give it out to some friends who don't have python, so I want to make it into an EXE. i've been trying for several hours using several different methods, but nothings seems to be working. I would REALLY appreciate any help.
So after all this time I think py2exe appears to be the best tool to use. I have it installed, I just can't get it to work correctly on my game. After looking for many different setup.py file thingys, this is the one i've been using most recently:
try:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe, pygame
from modulefinder import Module
import glob, fnmatch
import sys, os, shutil
except ImportError, message:
raise SystemExit, "Unable to load module. %s" % message
class pygame2exe(py2exe.build_exe.py2exe): #This hack make sure that pygame default font is copied: no need to modify code for specifying default font
def copy_extensions(self, extensions):
#Get pygame default font
pygamedir = os.path.split(pygame.base.__file__)[0]
pygame_default_font = os.path.join(pygamedir, pygame.font.get_default_font())
#Add font to list of extension to be copied
extensions.append(Module("pygame.font", pygame_default_font))
py2exe.build_exe.py2exe.copy_extensions(self, extensions)
class BuildExe:
def __init__(self):
#Name of starting .py
self.script = "game.py"
#Name of program
self.project_name = "MyApps"
#Project url
self.project_url = "about:none"
#Version of program
self.project_version = "0.0"
#License of the program
self.license = "MyApps License"
#Auhor of program
self.author_name = "Me"
self.author_email = "example@example.com"
self.copyright = "Copyright (c) 2009 Me."
#Description
self.project_description = "MyApps Description"
#Icon file (None will use pygame default icon)
self.icon_file = None
#Extra files/dirs copied to game
self.extra_datas = ['background.mid','background.png','bonus.png','cowbell.wav','highscore.txt']
#Extra/excludes python modules
self.extra_modules = []
self.exclude_modules = []
#DLL Excludes
self.exclude_dll = ['']
#Zip file name (None will bundle files in exe instead of zip file)
self.zipfile_name = None
#Dist directory
self.dist_dir ='dist'
## Code from DistUtils tutorial at http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Tutorial
## Originally borrowed from wxPython's setup and config files
def opj(self, *args):
path = os.path.join(*args)
return os.path.normpath(path)
def find_data_files(self, srcdir, *wildcards, **kw):
# get a list of all files under the srcdir matching wildcards,
# returned in a format to be used for install_data
def walk_helper(arg, dirname, files):
if '.svn' in dirname:
return
names = []
lst, wildcards = arg
for wc in wildcards:
wc_name = self.opj(dirname, wc)
for f in files:
filename = self.opj(dirname, f)
if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, wc_name) and not os.path.isdir(filename):
names.append(filename)
if names:
lst.append( (dirname, names ) )
file_list = []
recursive = kw.get('recursive', True)
if recursive:
os.path.walk(srcdir, walk_helper, (file_list, wildcards))
else:
walk_helper((file_list, wildcards),
srcdir,
[os.path.basename(f) for f in glob.glob(self.opj(srcdir, '*'))])
return file_list
def run(self):
if os.path.isdir(self.dist_dir): #Erase previous destination dir
shutil.rmtree(self.dist_dir)
#Use the default pygame icon, if none given
if self.icon_file == None:
path = os.path.split(pygame.__file__)[0]
self.icon_file = os.path.join(path, 'pygame.ico')
#List all data files to add
extra_datas = []
for data in self.extra_datas:
if os.path.isdir(data):
extra_datas.extend(self.find_data_files(data, '*'))
else:
extra_datas.append(('.', [data]))
setup(
cmdclass = {'py2exe': pygame2exe},
version = self.project_version,
description = self.project_description,
name = self.project_name,
url = self.project_url,
author = self.author_name,
author_email = self.author_email,
license = self.license,
# targets to build
windows = [{
'script': self.script,
'icon_resources': [(0, self.icon_file)],
'copyright': self.copyright
}],
options = {'py2exe': {'optimize': 2, 'bundle_files': 1, 'compressed': True, \
'excludes': self.exclude_modules, 'packages': self.extra_modules, \
'dll_excludes': self.exclude_dll} },
zipfile = self.zipfile_name,
data_files = extra_datas,
dist_dir = self.dist_dir
)
if os.path.isdir('build'): #Clean up build dir
shutil.rmtree('build')
if __name__ == '__main__':
if len(sys.argv):
sys.argv.append('py2exe')
BuildExe().run()
raw_input("Press any key to continue") #Pause to let user see that things endsWhen I try this however, I get the error:
NotImplementedError: font module not available
(ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading pygame\font.pyd)
In my actual code, I'm loading font using:
font = pygame.font.SysFont("freesansbold", 48)
as I heard this is the better way to do it.
I've tried many different setup.py files, but each gives me a different error, whether it be missing DLL's, or font, or something else. If I could get any help with this, i would appreciate it.