py2exe, Inno Setup, and tkinter

[Thomas Heller]

Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> writes:

> I'm trying to use py2exe and Inno Setup to build an installer for 
> shtoom, which uses tkinter.
>
> If I take the py2exe generated directory, and run the executable from
> there, it works fine.
>
> If I add all the files in the directory to an installer (including 
> the tk-8.4 and tcl-8.4 directories), it builds an installer fine.
>
> But when I run the installer, and install to, say c:/Program Files/Shtoom,
> running the program fails with 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 78, in ?
>   File "<string>", line 75, in main
>   File "<string>", line 66, in findUserInterface
>   File "<string>", line 33, in tryTkInterface
>   File "shtoom\ui\tkshtoom.pyc", line 23, in main
>   File "shtoom\ui\tkui\main.pyc", line 11, in __init__
>   File "Tkinter.pyc", line 1564, in __init__
> _tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: 
>     {c:/Program Files/lib/tcl8.4} {c:/Program Files/lib/tcl8.4} c:/lib/tcl8.4 {c:/Program Files/library} c:/library c:/../tcl8.4.3/library
>
> This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
>
> The init.tcl is actually in C:/Program Files/Shtoom/tcl8.4. Why is
> it not looking in the correct location? How can I fix this? 

Are you sure your installer reproduces the same directory structure as
the dist directory has?

I would expect the init.tcl in this directory:

c:/Program Files/shtoom/tcl/tcl8.4/init.tcl

Thomas