There are quite a few GTK packages needed, and rather than install them individually, I used the official AllinOne from the GTK project.
2,1/ Create a new folder c:\GTK
2.2/ Extract the following zip file into c:\GTK
GTK+ all in one 2.20.0 ... http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.20/gtk+-bundle_2.20.0-20100406_win32.zip
2.3/ If everything has worked, you should have c:\GTK\bin \etc \lib \src and so on created.
Step 3 Set GTK into the PATH variable
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The path for GTK isn't set by default, so need to let the o/s know where the GTK stuff is.
3.1/ Rightclick on mycomputer to show system properties
3.2/ select advanced/environment Variables
3.3/ in "system variables" NOT "user variables" do the following
3.3.1/ create a new item as name: GTK_BASEPATH value: c:\GTK
3.3.2/ edit the item "path", press home to get to the first character and insert the following text, (no quotes, including semicolon) %GTK_BASEPATH%\bin;
3.4/ to check, open command prompt and do:
dos>path ... system should respond with ... PATH=c:\GTK\bin;C:\WIN........
3.5/ Give it a spin to test (hopefully an application will start, if not, something has gone wrong)
dos> gtk-demo
Step 4 Get the fpdb GIT tree
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4.1/ Best to take a copy to work with; following steps will assume that the fpdb folder is on the Desktop
###### Step 5 no longer required as py2exe is instructed not to include the visualc/c++ dll's
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#py2exe will check for MSVCP90.dll. The version installed by python2.6.5runtime is not in the path, so we will put it in place #TEMPORARILY. This will/must be removed manually once the exe has been created, as we do not have a licence to redistribute.
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#Search for MSVCP90.dll (should be found in C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\...
#copy this file TEMPORARILY to the Desktop\fpdb\pyfpdb folder
There is a warning "c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py:16: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated import sets". This is probably coming from mysql-python see here https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-mysqldb/+bug/338387
There is a warning about dll's not included "umath.pyd - c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\umath.pyd" - reason for this is not understood at present. (Umath is apparently included in the built package).
#Step 7 Delete C++runtime
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###### Step 7 is no longer required (see step 5 for reason)
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#This is really really important, this file must NOT be distributed, so get rid of it now to avoid issues.
#
#7.1/ in Desktop\fpdb\pyfpdb\ remove the file msvcp90.dll
Observe that the msvcp90.dll was provided by the python runtime package, so we don't have to install the separate package from Microsoft. End-users will, however need the dependency.
Step 11 pruning
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11.1/ The generated folder is 100+MB and can be pruned by removing the following directories:
pyfpdb/lib/glib-2.0
pyfpdb/lib/gtk-2.0/include
pyfpdb/lib/pkgconfig
pyfpdb/share/aclocal
pyfpdb/share/doc
pyfpdb/share/glib-2.0
pyfpdb/share/gtk-2.0
pyfpdb/share/gtk-doc
pyfpdb/share/locale
pyfpdb/share/man
Step 12 rename folder
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12/ Rename the folder to something meaningful to the community
Step 13 Compress to executable archive
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13.1/ Download and install 7zip 914 ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/7-Zip/9.14/7z914.exe/download
13.2/ Rightclick on fpdb executable folder, select 7zip Add to archive... select SFX archive option switch
