Freezing an App

[Calishar]

> >  The part I am having problems with is using win32api. It runs, doesnt
set
> >the registry values it is suppoed to, and exits without giving any
errors.
>
> Im not sure what you mean here.

okay, basically I am using Python to automate a process at a client site. in
this application, I have about 4 different functions which each get called
by button clicks. One of the routines is supposed to set a registry key
based on an environment variable. The lines follow:


the_key=win32api.RegCreateKey(win32con.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"Software\Stac\Rea
chout\8.0")
  win32api.RegSetValueEx(the_key,"Computer Name",0,win32con.REG_SZ,mac_name)

At the moment, this is the only part of the application I dont have working
on my non-development system, unfortunately it happens to be kind of
important.

> Firstly, you could consider simply shipping win32api.pyd - ie, dont freeze

  This was my first thought, I made sure that I had the .pyd file in the
same directory as the program I am running. It doesnt do it.

> You do this simply by excluding win32api from the freeze using "-x
win32api"

  Tried doing this, then copying the files needed over to my '95 test system
(not the same OS,but should be close enough for this part) and when I ran
it, it crashed at line 3 of the code (import win32api)

> If you want to freeze the win32api sources into your app, the process then
> is:
> * Download the sources to the win32api module.
> * Check out the .ini file that comes with freeze.  It is used to locate
the
> source to win32apimodule.cpp.
>
> Run freeze - it may complain it cant find the file.  If so, ensure the
> environment variable it uses is set.  I can't recall exactly what that is.

  Okay, then I did this section, and when I ran freeze at the end it said:

generating table of frozen modules
No definition of module _tkinter in any specified map file.
No definition of module win32api in any specified map file.
Warning: unknown modules remain: _tkinter win32api

  Which looks the same as what I had the first time. I did notice that for
win32api it was using the win32api.pyd file rather than the source code
specified in the .ini file.

> This could do with more work - Im happy to discuss ways you can help to
make
> this better for the next person :-)

Thanks for the help, I'm really starting to feel like a dummy here.

Here is the command line I am using for freeze

python freeze.py -p e:\src\python1.5.2c1 -o e:\bins e:\ghostit.py

Calishar