py2exe windows apps path question

[vincent wehren]

"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:11evdoj8c4brd1b at corp.supernews.com...
| On 2005-08-02, vincent wehren <vincent at visualtrans.de> wrote:
| >
| > "Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
| > news:11ev0tcg9n2ndd at corp.supernews.com...
| >|I have several python apps (some wxPython, some plain text-mode
| >| stuff) that I distribute internally for installation on Win32
| >| machines.  They're bundled/installed using py2exe and inno
| >| setup.
| >|
| >| I followed what I think is the normal procedure of installing
| >| each app in its own directory under /Program
| >| Files/<vendor>/<app>.
| >|
| >| The problem is that the apps only run if they're started with
| >| the install directory as the current working directory.
| >| Otherwise they can't find the .dll's they use from the install
| >| directory.
| >
| > AFAIK, Windows normally *does* search the directory where the executable
| > module for the current process lives in for dlls. What sort of dlls are
| > given you trouble?
|
| One's a "driver" for a CAN bus USB widget.  The other failure
| that springs to mind is that gnuplot-py couldn't find something
| (could have been an .exe) that was in the app directory.

Grant,

If you are building paths in you code that are relative to your app, please 
see my reply to Greg's post. If not, you may as a workaround want to try to 
add the frozen application's directory to the system path environment 
variable. Windows will look for dlls there, too.

To get the app's actual location, you will need something like the 
getAppPrefix() function as per my reply to Greg's reply. The getAppPrefix() 
function will also hold when the user adds your frozen app to his/her system 
path and call the app from any location from the command line - sys.argv[0] 
just won't do the trick in such a setting.


HTH,

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Vincent Wehren










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