Bundling GTK3+ with cx_freeze - python-2.7

Question

Platform is Windows 7 64bit using python 2.7 and GTK3 installed from
http://games.2g2s.de/?page_id=223 and PyGobject from here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/files/?source=navbar
I used the script provided on wiki:
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, "gtk")
## Collect the list of missing dll when cx_freeze builds the app
missing_dll = ['libgtk-3-0.dll',
'libgdk-3-0.dll',
'libatk-1.0-0.dll',
'libcairo-2.dll',
'libcairo-gobject-2.dll',
'libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll',
'libpango-1.0-0.dll',
'libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll',
'libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll',
'libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll',
'libffi-6.dll',
'libfontconfig-1.dll',
'libfreetype-6.dll',
'libgio-2.0-0.dll',
'libglib-2.0-0.dll',
'libgmodule-2.0-0.dll',
'libgobject-2.0-0.dll',
'libpng15-15.dll',
]
## We also need to add the glade folder, cx_freeze will walk
## into it and copy all the necessary files
glade_folder = '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_folder, 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("materii.py",
base=base
)
]
buildOptions = dict(
compressed = False,
includes = ["gi"],
packages = ["gi"],
include_files = include_files
)
setup(
name = "test_gtk3_app",
author = "Gian Mario Tagliaretti",
version = "1.0",
description = "GTK 3 test",
options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
executables = executables
)
The exe is compiled but fails to run, due to this
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", in <module>
exec code in m.__dict__
File "materii.py", line 2, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\gi\__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
from ._gi import _API
File "ExtensionLoader_gi__gi.py", line 22, in <module>
File "ExtensionLoader_gi__gi.py", line 14, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Line 2 from materii.py is
from gi.repository import Gtk
Can you help me please?

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.