Creating a small python program with cx_Freeze and pyGTK - python-2.7

Question

I'm writing a small test-program that using python 2.7 and pygtk.
I will use Glade too
I need freeze this with cx_freeze.
This is my little program:
import gtk
win = gtk.Window()
win.connect("delete-event", gtk.main_quit)
win.show_all()
gtk.main()
And this is my setup:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import os, site, sys
## Get the site-package folder, not everybody will install
## Python into C:\PythonXX
site_dir = site.getsitepackages()[1]
include_dll_path = os.path.join(site_dir, "gnome")
## Collect the list of missing dll when cx_freeze builds the app
missing_dll = ['libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll',
'libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll',
'libatk-1.0-0.dll',
'libcairo-gobject-2.dll',
'libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll',
'libjpeg-8.dll',
'libpango-1.0-0.dll',
'libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll',
'libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll',
'libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll'
# 'libgnutls-26.dll',
# 'libgcrypt-11.dll',
# 'libp11-kit-0.dll'
]
## We also need to add the glade folder, cx_freeze will walk
## into it and copy all the necessary files
glade_path = os.path.join(site_dir, "gtk-2.0\\runtime\include\libglade-2.0\\")
glade_folder = 'glade'
# glade_folder = os.path.join(site_dir, "gtk-2.0\\")
# glade_folder += "runtime\include\libglade-2.0\glade"
## We need to add all the libraries too (for themes, etc..)
gtk_libs = ['etc', 'lib', 'share']
## Create the list of includes as cx_freeze likes
include_files = []
for dll in missing_dll:
include_files.append((os.path.join(include_dll_path, dll), dll))
## Let's add glade folder and files
include_files.append((glade_path, glade_folder))
## Let's add gtk libraries folders and files
for lib in gtk_libs:
include_files.append((os.path.join(include_dll_path, lib), lib))
base = None
## Lets not open the console while running the app
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
executables = [
Executable("hello.py",
base=base
)
]
buildOptions = dict(
compressed=False,
includes=["gi"],
packages=["gi"],
include_files=include_files
)
setup(
name="test_gtk3_app",
author="my name",
version="1.0",
description="GTK 3 test",
options=dict(build_exe=buildOptions),
executables=executables
)
I run this command:
python setup_fr.py build
So, a folder called "build" is created with various files and directories. But, when I run the program "hello.exe", this error occurs:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_freeze-4.3.3-py2.7-win32.egg\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 27, in <module>
exec(code, m.__dict__) File "hello.py", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gtk-2.0\gtk\__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
import gobject as _gobject File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gobject\__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
from glib import spawn_async, idle_add, timeout_add, timeout_add_seconds, \ File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\glib\__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
from glib._glib import * File "ExtensionLoader_glib__glib.py", line 22, in <module> File "ExtensionLoader_glib__glib.py", line 14, in __bootstrap__ ImportError: DLL load failed: Could not find the specified module.
I've looked at the "Build" folder to see if missing something related to gobject and found the "gobject._gobject.pyd" "libcairo-gobject-2.dll" and "GObject-2.0.typelib" files. I do not know exactly which file is still missing.
Can anyone help me figure out what is wrong?

Answer 1

Go to the gnome dir, which by itself is in the site-packages dir and manually copy all the .dll files (not the nested one) from this dir to your build/your-application-dir/ dir.
And it will work.