py2exe wxversion.checkInstalled / error building MediaCtrl

[Steven Sproat]

I've had to comment out my wxversion.checkInstalled for my application
to run with Py2EXE. However, I'm building with the correct version
number that I'm checking for, why should this fail?
I found this code here,
http://dialogue-act-editor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dae.py - where a
translated comment says how it fails when built with py2exe, but I can't
find any other people with the issue.

It's only a minor issue, but I'm using checkInstalled in two locations
and having to comment them out each time is a nuisance.


I'm also having a lot of trouble getting my MediaCtrl to run. I can
compile my application, but get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gui.py", line 62, in <module>
from whyteboard import Whyteboard
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "whyteboard.pyo", line 54, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "tools.pyo", line 33, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "panels.pyo", line 28, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "wx\media.pyo", line 8, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 98, in load_module
ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading wx\_media.pyd


Googling has revealed that placing the MSVCP71.DLL and msvcr71.dll's
into my applications directory should help, but the same error comes up.

I am using bundle_files=1, however I saw some suggestion online to use
#3. I changed to that, and the application seems to load but a different
traceback comes up.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gui.py", line 62, in <module>
from whyteboard import Whyteboard
File "whyteboard.pyo", line 54, in <module>
File "tools.pyo", line 33, in <module>
File "panels.pyo", line 28, in <module>
File "wx\media.pyo", line 8, in <module>
File "wx\_media.pyo", line 12, in <module>
File "wx\_media.pyo", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

With bundle=1 the error comes up much quicker than #3. I've ensured both
msvcp/r are included; tried with both capital letters/lowercase. I don't
really know where to go from here, does anyone have any suggestions?

--
Steven Sproat, BSc
http://www.basicrpg.com/

[Steven Sproat]

Ahem. I am an idiot.
A while ago I excluded many of the DLLs that py2exe was generating to make my application smaller. One of these was the mediactrl, which I overlooked. Dreadfully sorry, I wasted a good 2 hours on this!

2009/11/29 Steven Sproat <spr...@gmail.com>

[Cody Precord]

Hi,

On Nov 29, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Steven Sproat wrote:

Ahem. I am an idiot.
A while ago I excluded many of the DLLs that py2exe was generating to make my application smaller. One of these was the mediactrl, which I overlooked. Dreadfully sorry, I wasted a good 2 hours on this!

2009/11/29 Steven Sproat <spr...@gmail.com>

I've had to comment out my wxversion.checkInstalled for my application to run with Py2EXE. However, I'm building with the correct version number that I'm checking for, why should this fail?
I found this code here, http://dialogue-act-editor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dae.py - where a translated comment says how it fails when built with py2exe, but I can't find any other people with the issue.

It's only a minor issue, but I'm using checkInstalled in two locations and having to comment them out each time is a nuisance

Don't use wxversion in a 'built' program. Guard it by checking sys.frozen.

i.e)

if not hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):

    import wxversion

    do wxversion stuff

This is stated in the docs for wxversion (http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wxversion-module.html)

Cody