Use attribute windows or console of method setup to create a com exe server. Unlike the case with win32com, with ctypes.com only a exe server will be created. Also see: Py2exeAndWin32com & Py2exeAndCtypesComDllServer
You can define and instantiate a Target class to explicitly add version info resources that get attached to the file as metadata.
file setup.py would look something like this:
1 # This is the distutils script for creating a Python-based com exe
2 # server using ctypes.com. This script should be run like this:
3 #
4 # % python setup.py py2exe
5 #
6 # After you run this (from this directory) you will find two directories here:
7 # "build" and "dist". The .exe file in dist is what you are looking for.
8 ##############################################################################
9
10 from distutils.core import setup
11 import py2exe
12 import sys
13
14 class Target:
15 def __init__(self, **kw):
16 self.__dict__.update(kw)
17 # for the version info resources (Properties -- Version)
18 self.version = "0.0.1"
19 self.company_name = "my company"
20 self.copyright = "© 2006, my company"
21 self.name = "my com server name"
22
23 my_com_server_target = Target(
24 description = "my com server",
25 # use filename for ctypes.com exe server
26 script = "dir\my_com_server.py",
27 # dest_base specifies basename of the exe file (should match setup name)
28 dest_base = "my_com_server",
29 # the following line embeds the typelib within the exe
30 other_resources = [("TYPELIB", 1, open(r"dir\my_com_server.tlb", "rb").read())],
31 # we only want the local (exe) server
32 create_dll = False
33 )
34
35 setup(
36 name="my_com_server",
37 # the following two parameters embed support files within exe file
38 options={"py2exe": {"bundle_files": 1, }},
39 zipfile=None,
40 version="0.0.1",
41 description="my com server",
42 # author, maintainer, contact go here:
43 author="First Last",
44 author_email="some_name@some_company.com",
45 packages=["dir"],
46 windows=[my_com_server_target]
47 )
