Recipe for py2exe and the zmq package
Error message
*** finding dlls needed *** error: libzmq.dll: No such file or directory
or
Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 1, in <module> File "zmq\__init__.pyc", line 38, in <module> File "zmq\core\__init__.pyc", line 26, in <module> File "zmq\core\error.pyc", line 12, in <module> File "zmq\core\error.pyc", line 10, in __load File "error.pyx", line 34, in init zmq.core.error (zmq\core\error.c:1195) ImportError: No module named strtypes
Solution
1 from py2exe.build_exe import py2exe
2 from distutils.core import setup
3 import os
4 import zmq
5
6 # libzmq.dll is in same directory as zmq's __init__.py
7
8 os.environ["PATH"] = \
9 os.environ["PATH"] + \
10 os.path.pathsep + os.path.split(zmq.__file__)[0]
11
12 setup( console=[{"script": "main.py"}],
13 options={
14 "py2exe": {
15 "includes":
16 ["zmq.utils", "zmq.utils.jsonapi",
17 "zmq.utils.strtypes"] } } )
