Running the setup script

Editors note: this recipe has been posted by Mike C. Fletcher to comp.lang.python

Open a command-prompt window. (You'll find the command-prompt's icon in "Start|Programs" or "Start|Programs|Accessories", it may be called "MSDOS Prompt".)

Switch to the directory where your setup.py file is (use the shell's cd command to move between directories, you can use the "dir" command to see what files are in the current directory to confirm that the setup.py file is present),

P:\>cd OpenGLContext

P:\OpenGLContext>dir setup.py
 Volume in drive P is DATASTORE
 Volume Serial Number is 74A4-1C80

 Directory of P:\OpenGLContext

27/01/2004  06:01p               3,853 setup.py
               1 File(s)          3,853 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  11,575,771,136 bytes free

*then* run:

python setup.py py2exe --help

from that command prompt. You may need to specify the full path to python if you haven't added your python installation directory to the path, something like:

P:\OpenGLContext>c:\bin\lang\py23\python.exe setup.py build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext

depending on where you installed python.

HTH, and good luck, Mike