Hello to everybody.
I have been involved with wxWidgets in the past, but this is my first post to this list.
I have a Windows-specific question about frozen python applications that use wxPython. I am using wxPython 2.8.8.1, Python 2.5.2 on Win2k8 Server.
I have written a small test app that only creates and shows a wx.Frame. When I launch it through the installed python interpreter it works just fine. But when I freeze the app using compiled by me python25.dll and .lib using VS2008 I get a crash in _gdi_.pyd.
Can this be a matter related to the runtime library incompatibility? Has anybody else ever used wxPython from within frozen apps?
I am wondering what I have to do to solve the problem. Should I recompile wxPython and wxWidgets myself using VS2008, too?
Thank you very much!
Kindest regards,
Tsolakos Stavros
Hello again.
I have a Windows-specific question about frozen python applications that use wxPython. I am using wxPython 2.8.8.1, Python 2.5.2 on Win2k8 Server.
I have written a small test app that only creates and shows a wx.Frame. When I launch it through the installed python interpreter it works just fine. But when I freeze the app using compiled by me python25.dll and .lib using VS2008 I get a crash in _gdi_.pyd.
Can this be a matter related to the runtime library incompatibility? Has anybody else ever used wxPython from within frozen apps?
I am wondering what I have to do to solve the problem. Should I recompile wxPython and wxWidgets myself using VS2008, too?
I have found an old machine with MSVC7.1 and compiled python and the frozen executable. Unfortunately the same problems. 
Is there anything special that I should take care of when using wxPython from a frozen script?
Regards,
Stavros
Tsolakos Stavros wrote:
Hello again.
I have a Windows-specific question about frozen python applications that use wxPython. I am using wxPython 2.8.8.1, Python 2.5.2 on Win2k8 Server.
I have written a small test app that only creates and shows a wx.Frame. When I launch it through the installed python interpreter it works just fine. But when I freeze the app using compiled by me python25.dll and .lib using VS2008 I get a crash in _gdi_.pyd.
Can this be a matter related to the runtime library incompatibility? Has anybody else ever used wxPython from within frozen apps?
I am wondering what I have to do to solve the problem. Should I recompile wxPython and wxWidgets myself using VS2008, too?
I have found an old machine with MSVC7.1 and compiled python and the frozen executable. Unfortunately the same problems.
Is there anything special that I should take care of when using wxPython from a frozen script?
Regards,
Stavros
Why are you compiling Python yourself? It's already compiled in multiple versions for Windows on www.python.org.
I don't use VS2003 or 2008 to compile my applications. I use py2exe through GUI2Exe. Here's a couple of links:
http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/source/detail?r=2
http://www.py2exe.org/
Or there's a whole list of other python freeze utils here: Packaging_a_python_program · Wiki · meta / about · GitLab
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Hi Mike.
Why are you compiling Python yourself? It's already compiled in multiple versions for Windows on www.python.org.
I don't use VS2003 or 2008 to compile my applications. I use py2exe through GUI2Exe. Here's a couple of links:
Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
http://www.py2exe.org/
Or there's a whole list of other python freeze utils here: Packaging_a_python_program · Wiki · meta / about · GitLab
Thank you very much for the links. I have found py2exe really good. Actually, the last time I used freeze for building python executables was in late 2000 and I thought it was still the preferred way.
Thanks again,
Stavros