Creating Windows binaries

This is a section for the Tool-Devs

The process of creating binaries is a little bit complicated. This article tries to help keeping everything in check.

Prerequisites:

• pynsist
• The pycryptodomex package compiled on the target system. (32 or 64 Bit Windows)
  • You can install it via pip on a 32 / 64 Bit Windows to get it compiled
  • Then just grab the Cryptodome folder inside the <your-python.pyth>/lib/site-packages directory

Preparation:

• Write an installer.cfg for pynsist and put it in the directory of app.py. I'll add mine at the end of the article for you to copy; refer to the pynsist documentation if something is unclear.
• In the same directory create a dir called pynsist_pkgs.
  • Put the Cryptodome folder inside
  • Also get inside your local (virtualenv?) site-packages directory and copy the following folder as well: pgoapi, markupsafe
  • Get the google folder as well, but don't copy it whole, but just the protobuf folder inside. (Solves a whole bunch of problems, trust me)
• You should now have the following folder structure:

pynsist_pkgs
├── Cryptodome
├── markupsafe
├── pgoapi
└── protobuf

• Use your favorite editor to replace every mention of google.protobuf with protobuf inside all files contained in pgoapi and protobuf. (Yes I am serious, no there is no other way)
• Open up the pynsist_pkgs/pgoapi/__init__.py file and comment or remove the following lines:

if (not protobuf_exist) or (int(protobuf_version[:1]) < 3):
    raise PleaseInstallProtobufVersion3()

• Build the frontend and css files.
• Copy the contents of frontend/resources/public into a directory called interface and place it beside the app.py
• Build the installer with pyinsist installer.cfg
  • Change bitness inside the config to 32/64 accordingly first.
  • Change the version number if needed
• The result will be the Pogo-Cruncher-<Version>.exe inside the build directory.

WeGis installer.cfg:

[Application]
name=Pogo-Cruncher
version=0.2.10-64bit
# How to launch the app - this calls the 'main' function from the 'myapp' package:
entry_point=app:main
# icon=myapp.ico
console=true

[Python]
version=3.5.2
bitness=64

[Include]
# Importable packages that your application requires, one per line
packages = click
  backend
  flask
  flask_cors
  future
  geopy
  gpsoauth
  itsdangerous
  Cryptodome
  jinja2
  markupsafe
  pgoapi
  protobuf
  pkg_resources
  requests
  s2sphere
  six
  werkzeug


# Other files and folders that should be installed
files = README.md
  interface