Re: lots of Windows problems (pygtk)

[Wynand Winterbach <wynand winterbach gmail com>]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Wynand Winterbach wrote:
> > We're using PyGTK for a new little translation app (it's really rough at 
> > the moment).
>
> My last Gtk+ app on win32 was in C. I love Python, but I do find
> distribution of the final product problematic. I'm curious about what
> you did.
>
> Do you package Python in your installer? Ask your users to install
> Python first? py2exe?
>
> Mike

We use py2exe to create the Windows distribution; this results in a 
combination of exes (for each Python script that is marked as such), 
DLLs (from GTK in our case) and whatever else is necessary (in our case 
we also pulled in the .mo files from GTK as well as its /etc directory) 
in your output directory. When installed on a user's machine, all these 
files will go under the user's chosen installation path.

After the py2exe phase, InnoSetup is used to bundle everything together 
into a Windows installer.

All of this happens in setup.py and it's not too involved (I hope - I 
tried hard to simplify that file :)).

The created installer is quite weighty, but that's partly because the 
internationalization files consume a lot of space. In our case, we have 
to include everything, but you could shrink the installer by not 
including all of the .mo files. The setup script looks for all the GTK 
files; with a bit of modification one can get it to exclude many of the 
language directories.

Good luck
Wynand