== Introduction ==

How to generate a "exe" file with py2exe supporting gettext.

== What Objects are Involved ==

[[http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/|py2exe]] can be obtained from this site.

== Just see how little is needed ==

The following are sample setup files for py2exe, they are located in your application directory.  Should you use Boa Constructor you will then get additional
options in the File menu when editing the setup.py file, e.g. if you select File/setup.py py2exe your "exe" will be generated in a "dist" directory.

== setup.cfg code sample ==

Create a file "setup.cfg" in your program directory along the lines of the following example.

  * The package "encodings" is included below to prevent some errors when trying to run the "exe" on Python 2.3
  * The package "kinterbasdb" is what I use for database access.

{{{
#!python
#distutils config file for a little application

[py2exe]
packages = encodings, kinterbasdb
force_imports = encodings

# we don't use docstrings at runtime, so we may as well prune them...
optimize=2

# version information
version_companyname = which ever
version_filedescription = the little application name
version_fileversion = 0.1.0
version_legalcopyright = Hmm...
version_legaltrademarks = blah blah
version_productname = the little applications product name
version_productversion = 0.1.0

}}}

== setup.py code sample ==

Create a file "setup.py" in your program directory along the lines of the following example.

  * The translation files (.mo) have to be defined in the "data_files" section, one entry for each language.  I used the "ivcm" name for the domain as has been done on the other I18n pages.

{{{
#!python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-#
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(name="the application name",
      scripts=["ivcm.py"],
      data_files=[("locale\\fr\\LC_MESSAGES",
                    ["c:\\dev\\ivcm\\program\\locale\\fr\\LC_MESSAGES\\ivcm.mo"]),
                    ("locale\\en\\LC_MESSAGES",
                    ["c:\\dev\\ivcm\\program\\locale\\en\\LC_MESSAGES\\ivcm.mo"])],
)
}}}

=== Comments ===

Please feel free to provide any type of feedback on this page to me at [werner.bruhin@free.fr]