[Eric] More cxfreeze plugin woes

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Dienstag, 26. April 2011, Tomas Sobota wrote:
> 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?

Send them as a unified diff to me.

> 
> 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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