py2exe, Inno Setup, and tkinter

**Brian Kelley** · Jul 18 '05, 07:29 AM

Re: py2exe, Inno Setup, and tkinter

Anthony Baxter wrote:[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

I have a script for creating innosetup's [FILE] section. I have used
this just fine so it fails for you it may indicate a problem with tcl/tk
on your *normal* installation. Can you run your program outside of py2exe?

Here is the script:

import os
# This script creates the [FILES] section for innosetup
# I use it for creating the installer for py2exe
# generated distributions. Mainly because adding the
# tcl/tk stuff is a royal pain.

# Point FROM_DIRECTORY to py2exe's destination directory
# This will include all tcl/tk and wxPython files and
# everything else in the directory and subdirectories.

FROM_DIRECTORY = r"C:\Users\kell ey\Working\Plat eReader\app\dis t\Vista"

os.chdir(FROM_D IRECTORY)
def innoSourceLine( source, dest):
return 'Source: "%s"; DestDir: "{app}\%s"; CopyMode:
alwaysoverwrite '%(source, dest)

for root, dirs, files in os.walk("."):
sourcedir = os.path.abspath (root)
for f in files:
# get the destination directory
source = os.path.join(so urcedir, f)
dest = root
print innoSourceLine( source, dest)

# Brian

**Thomas Heller** · Jul 18 '05, 07:29 AM

Re: py2exe, Inno Setup, and tkinter

Anthony Baxter <anthony@interl ink.com.au> writes:
[color=blue]
> 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 findUserInterfa ce
> File "<string>", line 33, in tryTkInterface
> File "shtoom\ui\tksh toom.pyc", line 23, in main
> File "shtoom\ui\tkui \main.pyc", line 11, in __init__
> File "Tkinter.py c", line 1564, in __init__
> _tkinter.TclErr or: 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?[/color]

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

py2exe, Inno Setup, and tkinter

py2exe, Inno Setup, and tkinter

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