Including PYDs/DLLs in py2exe builds

Question

One of the modules for my app uses functions from a .pyd file. There\'s an option to exclude dlls (exclude_dlls) but is there one for including them? The build process doesn

Answer 1

You can modify the setup script to copy the files explicitly:

script = "PyInvaders.py"        #name of starting .PY
project_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.split(script)[1])[0]
setup(name=project_name, scripts=[script]) #this installs the program

#also need to hand copy the extra files here
def installfile(name):
    dst = os.path.join('dist', project_name)
    print 'copying', name, '->', dst
    if os.path.isdir(name):
    dst = os.path.join(dst, name)
    if os.path.isdir(dst):
        shutil.rmtree(dst)
    shutil.copytree(name, dst)
    elif os.path.isfile(name):
    shutil.copy(name, dst)
    else:
    print 'Warning, %s not found' % name

pygamedir = os.path.split(pygame.base.__file__)[0]
installfile(os.path.join(pygamedir, pygame.font.get_default_font()))
installfile(os.path.join(pygamedir, 'pygame_icon.bmp'))
for data in extra_data:
    installfile(data)

etc... modify to suit your needs, of course.