Creating single EXE using py2exe for a Tkinter program

py2exe, python, tkinter

Solution

Thanks to this link, you have to edit `site-packages/py2exe/build_exe.py` and add `"tcl85.dll"` and `"tk85.dll"` to the `dlls_in_exedir` list. This will get it to run, although you'll still have the `tcl` folders, and those two dlls will be there along-side the exe. But it's way better than `bundle_files=3`.

        self.dlls_in_exedir = [python_dll,
                               "w9xpopen%s.exe" % (is_debug_build and "_d" or ""),
                               "msvcr71%s.dll" % (is_debug_build and "d" or ""),
                               "tcl85.dll",
                               "tk85.dll"]

Problem

I'm trying to use minty's solution provided on this link to generate a single exe file for my Tkinter based program: py2exe - generate single executable file Here's what I wrote in the setup.py: ``` from distutils.core import setup import py2exe, sys, os sys.argv.append('py2exe') setup(windows=[{'script': 'filename.py'}], \ options={"py2exe": {"includes": ["decimal", "Tkinter", \ "tkFileDialog", "csv", "xml.dom.minidom", "os"], \ 'bundle_files': 1, 'compressed': False}}, \ zipfile = None) ``` It creates a 'tcl' folder for Tkinter stuff even though I have specified bundle_files = 1. Plus it also generates some other exe w9xpopen.exe. My actual exe, however, does not run, and it doesn't give any errors either. It doesn't even work if I remove all those includes. Any thoughts on what I could be missing here? I'm working on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.

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