Comments on: Packaging a Python game for distribution on Windows — py2exe and cx_Freeze http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/04/packaging-a-python-game-for-distribution-on-windows/ games, served indie side up Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:19:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: perry http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/04/packaging-a-python-game-for-distribution-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-38 perry Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:26:50 +0000 http://gamedev.pansapiens.com/?p=17#comment-38 Yeh, it is sort of irrelevant, since that is very rare to find an OEM Windows install with Python :) Can't really rely on that if you want more than 0.01 % of people to actually play your game. Still, it's cool to see that Python has been preinstalled occasionally ... sounds like Compaq could have been using it for something interesting in their bundled software ? Yeh, it is sort of irrelevant, since that is very rare to find an OEM Windows install with Python :) Can’t really rely on that if you want more than 0.01 % of people to actually play your game.

Still, it’s cool to see that Python has been preinstalled occasionally … sounds like Compaq could have been using it for something interesting in their bundled software ?

]]> By: Nicolas http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/04/packaging-a-python-game-for-distribution-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Nicolas Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:01:36 +0000 http://gamedev.pansapiens.com/?p=17#comment-37 This may be irrelevant but I bought a compaq computer in about 2006-2007 (I think) and it actually came with python preinstalled. I think it was version 2.3. This may be irrelevant but I bought a compaq computer in about 2006-2007 (I think) and it actually came with python preinstalled. I think it was version 2.3.

]]> By: perry http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/04/packaging-a-python-game-for-distribution-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-32 perry Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:59:09 +0000 http://gamedev.pansapiens.com/?p=17#comment-32 Another link: <a href="http://boodebr.org/main/python/build-windows-extensions" rel="nofollow">Building Python extensions for Windows with only free tools</a> ... in case you are using a non-pure-Python extension that needs compiling. Gets ugly. Another link: Building Python extensions for Windows with only free tools … in case you are using a non-pure-Python extension that needs compiling. Gets ugly.

]]> By: perry http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/04/packaging-a-python-game-for-distribution-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-27 perry Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:41:32 +0000 http://gamedev.pansapiens.com/?p=17#comment-27 For my own future reference: Here is another Python packaging tool bbfreeze ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze/ ), which I haven't tested yet but also looks like a good option. I know of at least one example where bbfreeze has been used to package a PyOpenGL game for Windows ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/08/11/exe-video/ ), so it must be fairly capable. For my own future reference: Here is another Python packaging tool bbfreeze ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze/ ), which I haven’t tested yet but also looks like a good option. I know of at least one example where bbfreeze has been used to package a PyOpenGL game for Windows ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/08/11/exe-video/ ), so it must be fairly capable.

]]> By: perry http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/04/packaging-a-python-game-for-distribution-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-8 perry Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:39:16 +0000 http://gamedev.pansapiens.com/?p=17#comment-8 One thing I'd really like is to be able to generate a Windows binary without actually using Windows ... eg running under Wine or some other solution. It sounds like a few people have tried to get py2exe going under Wine without success, although I heard a few Ludum Dare participants mention a tool called PyInstaller ( http://pyinstaller.python-hosting.com/ ) which apparently will work running under Wine. I'm yet to try it myself, but it looks promising. One thing I’d really like is to be able to generate a Windows binary without actually using Windows … eg running under Wine or some other solution.

It sounds like a few people have tried to get py2exe going under Wine without success, although I heard a few Ludum Dare participants mention a tool called PyInstaller ( http://pyinstaller.python-hosting.com/ ) which apparently will work running under Wine. I’m yet to try it myself, but it looks promising.

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]]> By: Rene Dudfield http://omgwtfgames.com/2008/04/packaging-a-python-game-for-distribution-on-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Rene Dudfield Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:26:13 +0000 http://gamedev.pansapiens.com/?p=17#comment-4 hi, very nice tute :) I'd like packing to be a focus for the next pygame release. So this stuff is easier out of the box. Perhaps even making it into a project tool like this one: http://www.pygame.org/project/589/ Or at least documenting it better on the pygame website. http://www.pygame.org/wiki/WindowsExecutables_Py2Exe cheers, hi,

very nice tute :)

I’d like packing to be a focus for the next pygame release. So this stuff is easier out of the box.

Perhaps even making it into a project tool like this one:
http://www.pygame.org/project/589/

Or at least documenting it better on the pygame website.
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/WindowsExecutables_Py2Exe

cheers,

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