[Pythoncard-users] Gordon McMillan's installer and PythonCard

I started playing with version 5 of Gordon McMillan's installer over the
weekend. I have a working .spec file which I've included below and checked
into cvs for the minimal sample. I have not tested it on Linux, but it
builds standalone on Windows just fine.

I've exchanged some emails with Gordon about adding lines to the spec to
exclude PIL and tkinter from the build. Apparently, the next version of the
installer will have support for excluding packages. Once I figure out the
necessary exclusion lines for the spec file I'll update cvs and reply to
this thread. In the meantime, if you want to exclude PIL/tkinter you can
modify the graphic.py module in the PythonCardPrototype directory to PIL
isn't imported. Just comment out the try/except block and add PIL_FOUND = 0
like so:

"""
try:
    import Image
    # necessary to avoid name collision with Image class
    from Image import fromstring
    PIL_FOUND = 1
except ImportError:
    PIL_FOUND = 0
"""
PIL_FOUND = 0


As with py2exe you'll need to uncomment the import line in minimal.py.
The results of the build are placed in the distminimal directory.

ka
---

"""
A spec file to make a standalone of minimal for
Windows and Linux platforms.  You can get
Gordon McMillans installer from
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install1.html

Use this command to build the standalone
and collect the other needed files:

  Build.py minimal.spec

"""

a = Analysis(['minimal.py'],
             pathex=[])
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
exe = EXE(pyz,
          a.scripts,
          exclude_binaries=1,
          name='buildminimal/minimal.exe',
          debug=0,
          console=1)
coll = COLLECT( exe,
               a.binaries + \
               [('minimal.rsrc.py', 'minimal.rsrc.py', 'DATA')] + \
               [('readme.txt', 'readme.txt', 'DATA')],
               name='distminimal')