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 Put MSVCP90.dll temporarily into the fpdb folder
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.
Search for MSVCP90.dll (should be found in C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\...
copy this file TEMPORARILY to the Desktop\fpdb\pyfpdb folder
6.2/ You should next get prompted for the GTK folder.
c:\GTK
6.3/ If there are no errors reported, it has probably worked, we will test soon.
Step 7 Delete C++runtime
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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
Step 8 Drag out the completed bundle
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py2exe creates a new folder for the created software bundle, drag this out to the desktop for ease of working
8.1/ Drag Desktop\fpdb\pyfpdb\fpdb-yyyymmdd-exe to Desktop\
Step 9 Initial run
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9.1/ Open the Desktop\fpdb-yyyymmdd-exe folder
9.2/ In explorer...tools...folder options...View uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"
9.3/ Double click run_fpdb.bat
9.4/ check the contents of pyfpdb\fpdb.exe.log, deal with any errors thrown
Step 10 drum roll.......
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10.1/ hopefully, fpdb will run
10.2/ Try out a few options, deal with any errors reported
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