Problem generating exe files from linux

Scripting Issues
1

Hello everyone!

I’m trying to create binaries for all platforms using my Debian Linux. Everything seems to be fine (though I haven’t tried Mac OS distribution) except Windows build. It generates exe file alongside with lots of .dll’s, but it doesn’t run.

My setup.py looks like this:

from setuptools import setup

exclude = [
#bunch of files
]

setup(
    name="Heroin",
    options = {
        'build_apps': {
            'include_patterns': ['*'],
            'exclude_patterns': exclude,
            'file_handlers': [],
            'gui_apps': {
                'Heroin': 'demo_panda.py',
            },
            'plugins': [
                'pandagl',
                'p3openal_audio',
                'p3ptloader',
                'pandaegg',
                'pandafx',
                'p3ffmpeg'
            ],
            'platforms': [
                'manylinux1_x86_64',
                'macosx_10_6_x86_64',
                'win_amd64',
                "win32",
            ],
        }
    }
)

Output from python setup.py build_apps command:

running build_apps
Building platforms: manylinux1_x86_64,macosx_10_6_x86_64,win_amd64,win32
Gathering wheels for platform: manylinux1_x86_64
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://archive.panda3d.org/simple/opt
Collecting panda3d==1.10.0 (from -r /home/montreal/Creativity/vrijdag/requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading http://buildbot.panda3d.org/downloads/7e562b0eb3ef5aa407b16d768cc49c8112828ef5/opt/panda3d-1.10.0+opt-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (49.1MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 49.1MB 1.4MB/s 
  Saved ./build/__whl_cache__/panda3d-1.10.0+opt-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Successfully downloaded panda3d
Building runtime for platform: manylinux1_x86_64
There are some missing modules: ['__builtin__', '_winapi']
Copying game files for platform: manylinux1_x86_64
Gathering wheels for platform: macosx_10_6_x86_64
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://archive.panda3d.org/simple/opt
Collecting panda3d==1.10.0 (from -r /home/montreal/Creativity/vrijdag/requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading http://buildbot.panda3d.org/downloads/7e562b0eb3ef5aa407b16d768cc49c8112828ef5/opt/panda3d-1.10.0+opt-cp36-cp36m-macosx_10_6_x86_64.whl (54.6MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 54.6MB 4.1MB/s 
  Saved ./build/__whl_cache__/panda3d-1.10.0+opt-cp36-cp36m-macosx_10_6_x86_64.whl
Successfully downloaded panda3d
Building runtime for platform: macosx_10_6_x86_64
Copying game files for platform: macosx_10_6_x86_64
Bundling macOS app into /home/montreal/Creativity/vrijdag/build/macosx_10_6_x86_64/Heroin.app
Gathering wheels for platform: win_amd64
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://archive.panda3d.org/simple/opt
Collecting panda3d==1.10.0 (from -r /home/montreal/Creativity/vrijdag/requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f5/c4/39d29e84d6bd00e9e71eaacb8a9a350d21a035ebfb2520b57a0385e7d0c6/panda3d-1.10.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl (57.3MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 57.3MB 585kB/s 
  Saved ./build/__whl_cache__/panda3d-1.10.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Successfully downloaded panda3d
Could not find an optimized wheel (using index https://archive.panda3d.org/simple/opt) for platform: win_amd64
Building runtime for platform: win_amd64
There are some missing modules: ['_bisect', '_blake2', '_codecs_cn', '_codecs_hk', '_codecs_iso2022', '_codecs_jp', '_codecs_kr', '_codecs_tw', '_heapq', '_md5', '_multibytecodec', '_opcode', '_pickle', '_posixsubprocess', '_random', '_sha1', '_sha256', '_sha3', '_sha512', '_struct', 'binascii', 'math', 'zlib']
warning: build_apps: could not find dependency VERSION.dll (referenced by python36.dll)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency VCRUNTIME140.dll (referenced by python36.dll)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency VCRUNTIME140.dll (referenced by deploy-stubw.exe)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency SETUPAPI.dll (referenced by libpanda.dll)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency CRYPT32.dll (referenced by avformat-55.dll)

Copying game files for platform: win_amd64
Gathering wheels for platform: win32
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://archive.panda3d.org/simple/opt
Collecting panda3d==1.10.0 (from -r /home/montreal/Creativity/vrijdag/requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f5/97/19f0d4d44f86e662627b17f4a7709a4fdc2d1efa075c649aa376cdc5f719/panda3d-1.10.0-cp36-cp36m-win32.whl (49.3MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 49.3MB 692kB/s 
  Saved ./build/__whl_cache__/panda3d-1.10.0-cp36-cp36m-win32.whl
Successfully downloaded panda3d
Could not find an optimized wheel (using index https://archive.panda3d.org/simple/opt) for platform: win32
Building runtime for platform: win32
warning: build_apps: could not find dependency VERSION.dll (referenced by python36.dll)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency VCRUNTIME140.dll (referenced by python36.dll)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency VCRUNTIME140.dll (referenced by deploy-stubw.exe)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency SETUPAPI.dll (referenced by libpanda.dll)

warning: build_apps: could not find dependency CRYPT32.dll (referenced by avformat-55.dll)

Copying game files for platform: win32

I guess, to run panda application on windows I just need those fantastic dlls, but where to find them?

2

You probably do not need to ship those DLLs with your game (although, you may need the MSVC redistributable as a result). What happens when you try to run the exe? You may want to switch from a gui_app to a console_app for easier debugging, or use the logging option. However, it looks like the logging option isn’t documented yet (I need to fix that).

3

App just does not run. Basically, nothing happens when I try to launch my exe file.

4

Please try generating a console app and checking the console output for more information.

EDIT: You can instead setup looking like is done in the asteroids sample and check the log output.

5

When I added log_filename and log_append, I’ve got this error:

Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ImportError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007f1eea10e700 (most recent call first):
Aborted
6

The encodings module should very much be included (build_apps will always include encodings regardless of what dependencies it finds). Maybe try adding encodings to the list of include_modules? Something like:

'include_modules': ['*': 'encodings']
7

You know, after I’ve added encodings, it works… Don’t know if it was the issue, though/