cx_freeze and matplotlib

[Serge Orlov]

Flavio wrote:
> I am trying to freeze an application which imports matplotlib. It all
> works fine on the machine where it was frozen. The executable runs
> without a glitch.
>
> But when I move the directory containing the frozen executable and
> other libs to a new machine, I get the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File
> "/home/fccoelho/Downloads/cx_Freeze-3.0.2/initscripts/Console.py",
> line 26, in ?
>  File "epigrass.py", line 5, in ?
>  File "Epigrass/manager.py", line 7, in ?
>  File "Epigrass/simobj.py", line 4, in ?
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
> 457, in ?
>    try: return float(s)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
> 245, in wrapper
>    if level not in self.levels:
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
> 319, in _get_data_path
>    Return the string representing the configuration dir.  If s is the
> RuntimeError: Could not find the matplotlib data files
>
> Matplotlib can't find its data files.

I'm not familiar with cx_freeze, but have you told cx_freeze that you
don't want to bundle matplotlib or cx_freeze has decided that
matplotlib is not going to be bundled? That fact that matplotlib is
loaded from site-package is pretty strange, standalone application are
not supposed to depend on non-system packages.