I do not build the windows version. I did it once last time 2 years
ago. Since than I only replace the pyc files and rezip. It is possible
we added some files that broke the py2exe script. Moreover I do not
use windows myself. If you have fixed it and want to email a revised
script I will post it.
On Mar 19, 9:53 pm, Brian M <bmere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was going to take a shot at building my own windows exe version of web2py
> and see if I could get pyodbc included, but ran into a problem. I started
> out with the source distribution of web2py 1.94.5. and then ran
>
> > python setup_exe.py web2py
>
> Everything seems to start building OK until it begins to try copying the
> data files. Setup throws warnings for NEWINSTALL, ABOUT, LICENSE & VERSION
> (btw, splashlogo.gif is missing from the list but needed) because there
> isn't a destination directory specified. Then as soon as it tries to copy
> the applications it dies with the following
>
> error: can't copy 'applications\examples\controllers': doesn't exist or
> not a regular file
>
> The 'applications\examples\controllers' directory is certainly there, so I'm
> not sure what's wrong.
>
> If I remove the lines in setup_exe.py that add in
> [x for x in reglob('applications/examples')] + \
> [x for x in reglob('applications/welcome')] + \
> [x for x in reglob('applications/admin')]
> then the exe appears to build ok and runs if I copy in the data files from
> the source dist, but I assume that since the applications are mentioned in
> the official source they're supposed to be included in the build
> automatically.
>
> Massimo, how do you build the Windows version of web2py?
