Help with Gordon McMillan Installer

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Sun Feb 10 10:11:11 EST 2002


Matthias Janes wrote:

[snip]

> I would like to create a onefile exe but I can't figure out how to
> write the right Makespec.file.

[snip]

> a = Analysis(['C:\\_Matthias\\_APPS\\Installer\\support\\useUnicode.py',
> 'C:\\_Matthias\\_APPS\\TEST3\\MyApp.py'],
>              pathex=[])
> pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
> exe = EXE( pyz,
>           a.scripts,
>           a.binaries,

            [('MyData.cfg', 'c:/_Matthias/_APPS/TEST3/Data.cfg', 'BINARY')],

>           name='MyApp.exe',
>           debug=0,
>           console=1)
> 
> 
> I tried different ways to add the Data.cfg file but this is never
> included in the ONEFILE.EXE instead it is copied extra in a folder.

Inline above. As BINARY, it will be extracted on each run. Of course,
that makes it effectively read-only.

-- Gordon
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/



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