Thanks Giovanni. I did read the manual many times -- hence not building the bootloaders. I wasn't aware that Cygwin didn't mean "Windows" in the case.
I'll keep hacking away and report back if I still can't figure it out. Thanks for the assist. - Jono On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Giovanni Bajo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:00 -0700, Jono Spiro wrote: > > Because I'm using a makefile and am most familiar with Cygwin; and > > there aren't really any good Windows building instructions that I am > > aware of -- I didn't know you could do it any other way. > > The manual is pretty clear, did you read that? > > http://www.pyinstaller.org/export/latest/tags/1.4/doc/Manual.html?format=raw > > It explicitly says: > ============================================================ > Note: Windows users can skip this step, because PyInstaller already > ships with binary bootloaders. > ============================================================ > > > I built the bootloader. The fact that the directory is named "linux" > > threw me off -- maybe it's worth renaming bootloader, and mentioning > > that Cygwin is included. Run.exe now exists. > > As I said, Cygwin is not really supported at this point, I think there > is not even a feature request open in the Trac. I would not hold my > breath about it -- but if you are really interested in it and want to > come up with a patch yourself, I can provide some guidance. > > > So now the EXE builds (I'm not using --onefile to keep things simple), > > but when I run it, nothing happens (at least Windows doesn't say it's > > not an application) -- I've tried a simple print statement on its own, > > and: > > if __name__ == "__main__": > > print "hi" > > and nothing prints out. I've tried running it in cmd.exe and in > > cygwin. > > Try building in debug+console mode (you need both the debug build of the > bootloader, that should have been built already, and running Makespec.py > with --debug --console). Look at the output and see what it is going on. > > > I am using Cygwin's python. I've been trying to use the standard win32 > > installer of Python, but get errors when trying to build the > > bootloader (let alone trying any later steps) -- it fails in both > > Cygwin and in CMD: [...] > > > > > Rather than me running around guessing -- are there clear instructions > > to build helloworld on Windows, in any configuration? > > The manual has a complete walkthrough that covers all supported > operating systems, see the section "Getting Started". If you try with > the official Python version on Windows (which is not cygwin), you can > follow the instructions for Windows. > > -- > Giovanni Bajo :: [email protected] > Develer S.r.l. :: http://www.develer.com > > My Blog: http://giovanni.bajo.it > Last post: Grey on black: combining greylisting with blacklists > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PyInstaller" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<pyinstaller%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller?hl=en.
