[gdal-dev] Problems packaging with py2exe

[Armin Schmidt]

I am trying to package my GDAL/OGR Python project with py2exe so that
the users don't need to do a separate GDAL installation, but I can't get 
it to work.

As an example, this simple two-line program results in the error message 
below when the final .exe file is called.

import osgeo.gdal as gdal
print __name__

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "temp.py", line 1, in <module>
   File "osgeo\__init__.pyc", line 21, in <module>
   File "osgeo\__init__.pyc", line 13, in swig_import_helper
   File "osgeo\_gdal.pyc", line 12, in <module>
   File "osgeo\_gdal.pyc", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

I have found several references to the same problem but no definitive
solution. Most comments refer to the correct installation of GDAL - but
the whole point is to distribute everything that is needed from GDAL in
the packaged installation file.

I have used dependency walker to check what _gdal.pyd (or
osgeo._gdal.pyd, which is produced by py2exe) require and have put
missing dll's into the system32 folder, but that didn't help either. I
just can't figure out what
  File "osgeo\_gdal.pyc", line 10, in __load
tries to load.

Armin

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Dr. Armin Schmidt
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  Groningen Institute of Archaeology
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, University of Bradford
  Department of Archaeological Sciences
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