building executable using python,vtk and py2exe
Question: Is it possible to create a binary executable with py2exe for vtk?

Could someone provide a minimum working example or at least some hints? Py2exe
is not necessary. If there is a working solution on other similar programs
(bbfreeze etc) I am intrested too.


Answer: This example uses py2exe. Use packages to add any referenced libraries and
options includes to add dependencies. I am not too sure about the exact
semantics and I reached this stable configuration after much trial and error.
Hopefully, you can use this as a template to go ahead.

    
    
    from distutils.core import setup
    import py2exe
    import modulefinder
    from iso8601 import iso8601
    
    setup(name='exeExample',
          version='1.0',
          description='Exe example using py2Exe',
          author='Urjit Singh Bhatia',
          author_email='person@user.com',
          packages=['example', 'someLib'],
          console=['src\\a.py',
                   'src\\b.py',
                   'src\\c.py',
                   'src\\d.py'],
          options={"py2exe":{"includes":["someLib","csv","iso8601","pymssql","uuid","decimal","urllib2","traceback","re","_mssql","os"]}}
         )
    

Keep in mind that options, includes sometimes need to be nested. That means,
if pymssql here uses _mssql, it was giving me an error saying that _mssql was
missing, so I had to explicitly go and add that as a dependency.

I hope someone can improve and explain.

Edits: 1\. Added imports. 2\. Simply running this creates a folder called dist
where you will see the exe(s) and the dependencies.

