How to create the standalone windows installer

[Zbynek Winkler]

Zbynek Winkler wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'd like to create the standalone windows installer from the current 
> tip for my colleagues. How would I do that? I've found that I can use 
> the 'bdist_wininst' option for setup.py but unfortunately that is not 
> it :( Any help appreciated.

Ok, I've found out that I need to install py2exe. However py2exe doesn't 
work for me. I am getting some error because there is no __init__.py in 
hgext. Putting empty __init__.py in hgext fixes the problem for me.

Running "python.exe setup.py py2exe -b 1" creates fairly similar layout 
to that of the installer. Only the 'templates' directory in located 
under mercurial subdirectory. I am not going to use http serving on 
windows anyway so I don't really care.

I've added the Mercurial.ini, patch.exe and TortoisePlink.exe. I've added
[ui]
ssh = TortoisePlink.exe
to the ini file, but it seems to be ignored.

pulling from ssh://....
searching for changes
remote: 'ssh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
remote: operable program or batch file.
abort: unexpected response ''!

And the error is local and not remote. May be we should first try to 
somehow check for the existence of the sshcmd and report proper error 
when it is not found.

When I add --ssh tortoiseplink to the command line everything works fine.

The reason seems to be the hardcoded path in util.py, line 374 :(. 
Replacing the line with
    rcpath = (os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) + r'\mercurial.ini',
fixes the problem with for me.

Zbynek

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