[Eric] More cxfreeze plugin woes

[Tomas Sobota]

Yes, I understand the problem. Anyway I modified slightly two scripts of
your cxfreeze plugin so that, when in Windows, the plugin makes more efforts
to find the Python installation path. I would gladly submit these changes to
your consideration. In which form and where should I send them?

Tom Sobota
Madrid, Spain

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de
> wrote:

> On Sonntag, 24. April 2011, Tomas Sobota wrote:
> > I finally got to install (thanks, Tobias!) and make work the cxfreeze
> > plugin for Eric5. But it is not straightforward on Windows.
> >
> > First, I installed everything on a 64 bit Win 7. In this environment,
> > cxfreeze installs a bat file called cxfreeze.bat in the Python Scripts
> > folder, which in a standard installation of the latest Python 3 is at
> > C:\Python32\Scripts.
> >
> > However, in the cxfreeze.bat file Python 3 gets called like
> > "C:\Python32-64\Python32-64.exe", so it is never found. This problem is
> > attributable to the cxfreeze installation and not to the plugin,
> naturally.
> >
> > So I changed the cxfreeze.bat so that it points to
> C:\Python32\Python.exe.
> > But the plugin still would not work, with a diagnostic that "the cxfreeze
> > executable was not found". Looking at the plugin sources I noticed that
> it
> > is looking for cxfreeze.bat in the path. The problem with this approach
> in
> > a Windows installation is that the Python scripts folder never gets
> > appended to the path during Python installation. Once I appended the
> > scripts folder to the path manually, the plugin works correctly.
> >
> > In a 32 bit Win 7 installation, the cxfreeze.bat file correctly points to
> > C:\Python32\Python.exe, so it doesn't need to be edited. But the path
> > problem is the same as above.
> >
> > I guess that on a Linux or Unix box all these problems don't arise. Later
> I
> > will install Python32/PyQt/Eric5/cxfreeze in my FreeBSD box and verify
> what
> > happens in that environment.
> >
> > Tom
>
> Due to the fact, that eric cannot know exactly where all the tools are
> installed, it assumes, that they are available via the executable path
> setting. If the scripts folder doesn't get added (or any other directory on
> non Win machines) you have to add it to the PATH variable. Maybe I should
> offer a configuration option where you can set the path to the cxfreeze
> executable. Feedback is welcome.
>
> Detlev
> --
> Detlev Offenbach
> detlev at die-offenbachs.de
>
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