Hi, I'm ThadeusB.

If you get the errors at the bottom of this post while trying to use pygame.font.Font or pygame.font.SysFont and py2exe here is a simple fix.

Be sure to include 'pygame' as a package to your py2exe script. Also you will need to copy SDL.dll and SDL_ttf.dll from the pygame directory. If you use the default python font you will also need to include that as well.

I have been wrecking my brain the last two and a half days trying to solve this problem.

In my last attempt at solving the problem, I figured "Heck, it won't hurt to grab every DLL from system32, pygame and what ever else I could find and put them in my dist directory". I almost cried with joy when it worked! I narrowed it down to SDL.dll and SDL_ttf.dll are the magick files.

Is this a bug that py2exe does not find these and include them automatically? Using optimize 2, bundle_files 1, nozip

Helpful code:

pygamedir = os.path.split(pygame.base.__file__)[0]
os.path.join(pygamedir, pygame.font.get_default_font()),
os.path.join(pygamedir, 'SDL.dll'),
os.path.join(pygamedir, 'SDL_ttf.dll')

Relative Tracebacks: MemoryLoadLibrary

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "myrts.py", line 1, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "scene.pyo", line 23, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "world.pyo", line 31, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "tileengine.pyo", line 32, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
File "widgets.pyo", line 18, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 98, in load_module
ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading pygame

ont.pyd

DLL load failed

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "myrts.py", line 1, in <module>
File "scene.pyo", line 23, in <module>
File "world.pyo", line 31, in <module>
File "tileengine.pyo", line 32, in <module>
File "widgets.pyo", line 18, in <module>
File "pygame

ont.pyo", line 12, in File "pygameont.pyo", line 10, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

NotImplementedError font module not available

MyRTSdistMy RTS.exe:68: RuntimeWarning: use font: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading pygame/f

ont.pyd Traceback (most recent call last):File "myrts.py", line 106, inFile "myrts.py", line 75, in runFile "scene.pyo", line 97, in loadFile "widgets.pyo", line 107, in init #loads the pygame.font module here.File "pygame__init__.pyo", line 70, in getattr NotImplementedError: font module not available

Note: For some reason py2exe regards the SDL_ttf.dll file as a system owned dll and excludes it from the distribution package. That is why this error is being received.

To override this you can use a trick found in py2exe's FAQ. Like this:

origIsSystemDLL = py2exe.build_exe.isSystemDLL
def isSystemDLL(pathname):
       if os.path.basename(pathname).lower() in ["sdl_ttf.dll"]:
               return 0
       return origIsSystemDLL(pathname)
py2exe.build_exe.isSystemDLL = isSystemDLL

This will make sure that the SDL_ttf.dll isn't recognized as a system dll.