[pygsear] Py2exe against a pygsear program fails

[J. Michael McGarrah]

Hello,

I'm trying to use Py2exe with Python 2.3.3 and the binary release of 
Py2exe that is on the sourceforge website as of last night 1-9-2004 with 
the CVS version of pygsear 0.52+ (a wrapper library for pygame) and the 
stable release of both pygame and SDL for Windows.  I'm on a Win32 system 
 - Windows XP Pro to be exact.

I've built a simple case that just loads the Game and displays a screen.

Just unpack this zip file http://www.darkmagic.org/mike/python/exeTest.zip

This contains a simple pygsear program based on the How-To but adds 
excluding the splash screen to remove the bitmap dependency.

To build with Py2exe (after installing py2exe):

$ cd exeTest
$ python setup.py py2exe
(bunch of log info returned)
$ cd dist/BaseGame
$ BaseGame.exe

When I attempt to run the resulting BaseGame.exe that is produced by 
py2exe, I get the following error message back.

---- begin error --

Pygame Parachute Traceback:
  File "pygsear\Drawable.pyc", line 1523, in __init__
Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.

--- end error ---


I've also included a exeTest2.zip that has a very simple pygame program.  
That program will convert to an EXE with py2exe so it appears to be 
something about pygsear that's interacting strangely.

The pygame sample project is in 
http://www.darkmagic.org/mike/python/exeTest2.zip

Does any of this ring a bell or send up flags to someone else before I 
start digging significantly deeper.  Py2exe is diffcult code and I'm a 
novice in the Python world.

Alternately, has anyone used another mechanism to use with pygsear to 
distribute a program.  I'm willing to try another tool if py2exe isn't 
going to work.  Freeze & Squeeze appear to have been removed from 
the standard Python 2.3.3 for Win32 distribution, so I'd have to find 
those tools wherever they are hiding.

--
Michael McGarrah