Building Binaries with Pygame

General Discussion
1

Hi all,

I’m using the Panda3D setup tool to build binaries of my game. However, its currently failing when it reaches an import statement for pygame. Here is the error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__", line 16, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in exec_module
  File "pygame", line 38, in <module>
  File "os", line 1165, in add_dll_directory
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'C:\\Users\\laptopname\\gamename\\build\\win_amd64\\Lib\\pygame'

Here is my setup.py:

from setuptools import setup

import os, sysconfig

# Where your venv stores platform libs (packages with .pyd + DLLs)
site_plat = sysconfig.get_paths()['platlib']           # e.g. C:\...\venv\Lib\site-packages
pygame_src = os.path.join(site_plat, 'pygame')         # full pygame package path

# Tell build_apps to copy the whole folder into the build at Lib\pygame
include_files = [(pygame_src, 'Lib/pygame')]
 
setup(
    name='game1',
    options={
        'build_apps': {
            'gui_apps': {
                'game1': 'Menu.py',
            },
 
            'log_filename': '$USER_APPDATA/game1/output.log',
            'log_append': False,
 
            'include_patterns': [
                'fonts/**',
                'images/**',
                'models/**',
                'sounds/**',
                'contact_details',
                'questions',
                'venv\Lib\site-packages\pygame'
            ],
 
            # only needed if dynamic imports are used:
            'include_modules': [
                'game',
                'database_interactions',
                'pygame', 
                'pygame.freetype'
            ],
 
            'plugins': [
                'pandagl',
                'p3openal_audio',
            ],
            'platforms': ['win_amd64'],
            'prefer_discrete_gpu': True,
        }
    }
)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Very stuck with this one.

Thanks,
Jack

2

Try replace \ with / in pygame addr.

3

Welcome to the community!

Your include_files = line does nothing, because it’s not being passed to setup() in any meaningful way.

You need to include the pygame DLLs somehow. Apparently it looks for them in a Lib/pygame directory. So you could try something like this:

            'package_data_dirs': {'pygame': [('pygame/*.dll', 'Lib/pygame', ())]}

I’m a bit confused though because if I look at the actual pygame wheel, it doesn’t try to use a special Lib/pygame directory, it just looks for them in the directory of the executable. Which version of pygame are you using?