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pythongtk
Marian
Marian

Reputation: 53

Python Gtk3 executable

I started using GTK 3 with Python. How could I make an executable Windows file from my GTK 3 Python source using PyInstaller, cx_Freeze or py2exe?

I tried a lot of answers from Stack Overflow and many other web pages, but none worked.

I tried to make it with PyInstaller (I think it could be the easiest way) and my source code looks like:

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk

class ButtonWindow(Gtk.Window):

    def __init__(self):
        Gtk.Window.__init__(self, title="Button Demo")
        self.set_border_width(10)

        hbox = Gtk.Box(spacing=6)
        self.add(hbox)

        button = Gtk.Button.new_with_label("Click Me")
        button.connect("clicked", self.on_click_me_clicked)
        hbox.pack_start(button, True, True, 0)

        button = Gtk.Button.new_with_mnemonic("_Open")
        button.connect("clicked", self.on_open_clicked)
        hbox.pack_start(button, True, True, 0)

        button = Gtk.Button.new_with_mnemonic("_Close")
        button.connect("clicked", self.on_close_clicked)
        hbox.pack_start(button, True, True, 0)

    def on_click_me_clicked(self, button):
        print("\"Click me\" button was clicked")

    def on_open_clicked(self, button):
        print("\"Open\" button was clicked")

    def on_close_clicked(self, button):
        print("Closing application")
        Gtk.main_quit()

win = ButtonWindow()
win.connect("delete-event", Gtk.main_quit)
win.show_all()
Gtk.main()

But I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
  File "c:\python34\lib\gi\__init__.py", line 102, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Gtk not available
gtk returned -1

What shall I do with this or how can I make an executable in py2exe or cx_Freeze?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3671

Answers (1)

user5416120
user5416120

Reputation:

Install cx_Freeze

You should just be able to do pip install cx_Freeze on Windows. Or you could go to their official website cx_Freeze.

Create a setup.py file in the same folder as your program.

File setup.py

import cx_Freeze

executables = [cx_Freeze.Executable("file.py")]

cx_Freeze.setup(
    name="WhatEverYouWantToNameIt",
    options={"build_exe": {"packages":["gi"]}},
    executables = executables
)

Open command prompt in the file location of your program. On Windows, you should just have to Shift + <left-click the folder and click open command window here. Once that opens up, type python setup.py build. If you get an error stating that Python is not in your path, then give the full path. For example, on Windows, with Python 3.4, you would do:

C:/Python34/python setup.py build

If you're on a Mac, then you would do:

python setup.py bdist_dmg

Once it's done, come back and tell me if it works. If it doesn't work, just give me the error message, and I'll fix the problem. Good luck!

Upvotes: 3

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