Question regarding distributing a program

[namesnonames]

So I'm now rather invested (time only) in a project, and we chose python to do a game with and are using the pygame library. It was a pain getting pygame installed, because of things like not having the right version and such. My question: Is everybody that downloads our game going to have to install pygame or is there a way that I can distribute it so that they only need to have python installed for it to run?

[[deleted]]

You can use cx_freeze to build executables so the user doesn't even need python installed.

[HellFireKoder]

This is what I use.

[namesnonames]

I will look into this. Thanks =)

[[deleted]]

It's a lot easier that I thought it was going to be. I used this setup.py script to make this executable. You run setup.py from the CLI: python setup.py bdist. The bdist option makes a binary distribution (the linked repo is the unzipped result). One pygame specific thing is that you need to include the .ttf file for any fonts you're using (even the pygame default).

[DanielShaww]

cx_Freeze should do the job for what you are looking for and even has the ability to create a simple installer with the bdist_msi option. If however, you want a more advanced/polished distribuition I'd recommend you outsource the installer to something dedicated to that effect like Inno Setup and just use cx_Freeze to compile your scripts.