[pygame] py2exe and pygame font causes segfaults

[Jake b]

I have a game that I want to package using py2exe. I compile it, and
seems fine, but I run it and I get:


Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.


However, if I run it as normal python script, it works fine.

[ If I rename the freesansbold.ttf to something else, it end with
IOError: unable to read font filename as expected. ]

So I set a boolean to toggle all font creation/blits/etc... -- If it
is off, the .exe runs fine. If it is on, it fails with above error.

If I run python script , it runs fine with text on.



Any ideas?
--
Jake

Re: [pygame] py2exe and pygame font causes segfaults

[Ian Mallett]

Using the pygame default font in py2exe doesn't work for some reason.
You'll have to include the file in your distribution yourself and use
pygame.font.Font().  Also remember to include *all* your data files in the
distr folder py2exe makes too.

Ian

Re: [pygame] py2exe and pygame font causes segfaults

[pymike]

Because the Font path is in the Python/lib/site-packages/pygame dir, so if
Python isn't installed the font doesn't exist =)

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Ian Mallett geometr...@gmail.com wrote:

 Using the pygame default font in py2exe doesn't work for some reason.
 You'll have to include the file in your distribution yourself and use
 pygame.font.Font().  Also remember to include *all* your data files in the
 distr folder py2exe makes too.

 Ian




-- 
- pymike
Python eggs me on.

Re: [pygame] py2exe and pygame font causes segfaults

[Jake b]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Ian Mallett geometr...@gmail.com wrote:

 Using the pygame default font in py2exe doesn't work for some reason.
 You'll have to include the file in your distribution yourself and use
 pygame.font.Font().  Also remember to include *all* your data files in the
 distr folder py2exe makes too.

 Ian

I heard about that, so before I posted I copied the ttf file into a
subdirectory relative my main.py script. ( its in
./data/ttf/freesandsbold.ttf )

And code:
self.font_path = os.path.join('.', 'data','ttf','freesansbold.ttf')
self.font = pygame.font.Font(self.font_path, 18)

And I get the parachute in my first post.
-- 
Jake