how are you "custom building" the binary ? The "official" scripts deals with py2exe's incorrect packaging system with these lines
https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/extras/build_web2py/setup_exe.py#L100 BTW: we're moving towards bbfreeze packed binaries, and they seem to work well with bbreeze 0.13 On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 12:50:54 PM UTC+1, step wrote: > > In upgrading from 2.6.4 to 2.8.2 my custom-built web2py_no_console.exe > failed starting the rocket server with a 'can't import module http' python > error. It's something seemingly unrelated to the other posters' issues, but > I'm sharing how I was able to fix it, maybe it will help someone. > Essentially the fix consists in editing web2py_exe.py and commenting out > the new code block that slims down library.zip. That was it, in my case. I > rebuilt my web2py_no_console.exe with the fatter library.zip and the import > error went away. The new code was added in 2.8.2, apparently it's harmless > but in my case it makes the difference between a working > web2py_no_console.exe and a broken one. I wonder, maybe there is a reason > why py2exe builds a larger library.zip file so seemingly full of > duplicates. For the record, I wish the size trimming had worked - in my > case it had shrunk library.zip from 16MB down to about 6MB. > > On Saturday, January 18, 2014 7:08:58 PM UTC+1, Niphlod wrote: >> >> we're trying to come up with something here >> http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=1809 >> >> if you have any inputs please share ^_^ >> >> On Saturday, January 18, 2014 1:30:33 AM UTC+1, Ray (a.k.a. Iceberg) >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:00:19 AM UTC-7, Rob Paire wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> I am having same problem running on Windows server 2003 32bit. When I >>>> launch web2py.exe the following dialog error appears: >>>> >>>> *Title: Error Entry Point Not Found* >>>> >>>> *Description: The procedure entry point wcscpy_s could not be located >>>> in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll* >>>> >>>> Clicking OK returns control to the web2py executable which fails with >>>> the following console message: >>>> >>>> C:\web2py>web2py >>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>> File "<string>", line 6, in <module> >>>> File "__main__.py", line 128, in <module> >>>> File "__main__web2py__.py", line 18, in <module> >>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/__init__.py", line 15, >>>> in <modu >>>> le> >>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/globals.py", line 19, >>>> in <modul >>>> e> >>>> File "/home/mdipierro/make_web2py/web2py/gluon/xmlrpc.py", line 10, >>>> in <module >>>> > >>>> File "SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 102, in <module> >>>> File "xmlrpclib.py", line 144, in <module> >>>> File "httplib.py", line 79, in <module> >>>> File "mimetools.py", line 6, in <module> >>>> File "tempfile.py", line 35, in <module> >>>> File "random.py", line 879, in <module> >>>> File "random.py", line 97, in __init__ >>>> File "random.py", line 111, in seed >>>> WindowsError: [Error -2146893795] Provider DLL failed to initialize >>>> correctly >>>> >>>> I reverted back to 2.7.4 for the time being. >>>> >>>> >>> Same problem here. I guess that *msvcrt.dll* thing is because the >>> web2py282 windows builder is running on a different Windows platform than >>> before. >>> Now I have to roll back. >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
