newbie py2exe difficulty

[Elaine Jackson]

Thanks for your help. Everything's cool now.

"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1028.1075452591.12720.python-list at python.org...
| Open a command-prompt window. (You'll find the command-prompt's icon in
| Start|Programs or Start|Programs|Accessories, it may be called "MSDOS
| Prompt".)
|
| Switch to the directory where your setup.py file is (use the shell's cd
| command to move between directories, you can use the "dir" command to
| see what files are in the current directory to confirm that the setup.py
| file is present),
|
|         P:\>cd OpenGLContext
|
|         P:\OpenGLContext>dir setup.py
|          Volume in drive P is DATASTORE
|          Volume Serial Number is 74A4-1C80
|
|          Directory of P:\OpenGLContext
|
|         27/01/2004  06:01p               3,853 setup.py
|                        1 File(s)          3,853 bytes
|                        0 Dir(s)  11,575,771,136 bytes free
|
| *then* run:
|
|         python setup.py py2exe --help
|
| from that command prompt.  You may need to specify the full path to
| python if you haven't added your python installation directory to the
| path, something like:
|
|         P:\OpenGLContext>c:\bin\lang\py23\python.exe setup.py build
|         running build
|         running build_py
|         running build_ext
|
| depending on where you installed python.
|
| HTH, and good luck,
| Mike
|
|
| Elaine Jackson wrote:
|
| >Hi. I'm trying to use py2exe
(http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/)
| >in Windows 98. I copied the necessary files into my Python23 directory (where
I
| >
| >
| ...
|
| >My problem is that, when I attempt to follow the first instruction (details
| >follow), it opens a DOS window that may indeed display all available
| >command-line flags to the py2exe command, but isn't very helpful because it
| >immediately disappears. (In fact I'm really not sure what a command-line flag
| >is, or what I'm supposed to do with it.) I've also tried simply running
| >setup.py: the DOS window disappeared immediately and there was no 'dist'
| >directory in evidence.
| >
| >
| ...
|
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