little standalone windows game

[Dan Rolander]

Hi Pete,

I'd be interested in hearing about how your solution works and seeing the
code. I too have been searching for a way to create 2.0 standalones
(particularly for Win32) for awhile now. Gordon McMillan's Installer is cool
when it works but has a number of difficulties with Python 2.0. What I've
finally come up with is a way to identify exactly which Python files are
used by a script, by capturing all of the dll loads and file openings with a
commercial product called Reveal (http://www.addisonsw.com) and having it
generate a component manifest. Then I create a minimal Python distribution
with just the files necessary to support that script, create a toplevel
script which when run points sys.path to the private distribution
directories, and I package everything into a self-extracting exe.

Python is a great language and the full install with all of the libraries is
a very powerful thing, but the difficulty in creating small standalone
distributions is (I think) the biggest issue.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Shinners" <shredwheat at mediaone.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:52 AM
Subject: little standalone windows game


> i've been hunting solutions to get standalone running
> executables on windows. (hmm, not alone, am i?)
>
> after finding that nothing works for 2.0, i went ahead
> and started working out my own solution. i started with
> the nice project by Neil Schemenauer for a standalone
> python 1.5.
>
> i took the work there and upped everything to work with
> 2.0, then threw my little pygame project into it to see
> what happens.
>
> the good news is it all works. it doesn't really turn
> python into a single .EXE, but it does create a set of
> files that can run your python code standalone.
>
> the final installer for my test game, "Aliens" is here;
> http://pygame.seul.org/ftp/Aliens_Setup.exe
>
>
> it sounds like enough people are interested in something
> like this. i'm planning to release a 'skeleton' version of
> this type of package so anyone can release a python program
> like this. this solution isn't too pretty for small little
> utilities, but for bigger projects it seems to balance a
> bit nicer.
>
> unix users aren't in the cold, the aliens example is included
> with the pygame install. more info at http://pygame.seul.org
>
>
>
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