When trying to compile my own stand alone exe for Electrum, there is an error

Question

I opened up my cmd prompt (which has Python 2.7 in its environment variables.

I cd over to the folder with setup.py and then I run python setup.py py2exe.

This supposedly will create a standalone exe for use in Windows, but it looks like ntpath.py is not getting my path correctly.

This seemed like a simple problem, but I had no clue what to search for, though I tried.

If someone could point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.

Edit:

Here's the Setup.py.

I am running Windows 7, 64 bit, Python 2.7. py2exe is 0.6.9. Electrum is 1.9.7

#!/usr/bin/python

# python setup.py sdist --format=zip,gztar

from setuptools import setup
import os
import sys
import platform
import imp


version = imp.load_source('version', 'lib/version.py')
util = imp.load_source('version', 'lib/util.py')

if sys.version_info[:3] < (2, 6, 0):
    sys.exit("Error: Electrum requires Python version >= 2.6.0...")

usr_share = '/usr/share'
if not os.access(usr_share, os.W_OK):
    usr_share = os.getenv("XDG_DATA_HOME", os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), ".local", "share"))

data_files = []
if (len(sys.argv) > 1 and (sys.argv[1] == "sdist")) or (platform.system() != 'Windows' and platform.system() != 'Darwin'):
    print "Including all files"
    data_files += [
        (os.path.join(usr_share, 'applications/'), ['electrum.desktop']),
        (os.path.join(usr_share, 'app-install', 'icons/'), ['icons/electrum.png'])
    ]
    if not os.path.exists('locale'):
        os.mkdir('locale')
    for lang in os.listdir('locale'):
        if os.path.exists('locale/%s/LC_MESSAGES/electrum.mo' % lang):
            data_files.append((os.path.join(usr_share, 'locale/%s/LC_MESSAGES' % lang), ['locale/%s/LC_MESSAGES/electrum.mo' % lang]))

appdata_dir = util.appdata_dir()
if not os.access(appdata_dir, os.W_OK):
    appdata_dir = os.path.join(usr_share, "electrum")

data_files += [
    (appdata_dir, ["data/README"]),
    (os.path.join(appdata_dir, "cleanlook"), [
        "data/cleanlook/name.cfg",
        "data/cleanlook/style.css"
    ]),
    (os.path.join(appdata_dir, "sahara"), [
        "data/sahara/name.cfg",
        "data/sahara/style.css"
    ]),
    (os.path.join(appdata_dir, "dark"), [
        "data/dark/background.png",
        "data/dark/name.cfg",
        "data/dark/style.css"
    ])
]


setup(
    name="Electrum",
    version=version.ELECTRUM_VERSION,
    install_requires=['slowaes', 'ecdsa>=0.9'],
    package_dir={
        'electrum': 'lib',
        'electrum_gui': 'gui',
        'electrum_plugins': 'plugins',
    },
    scripts=['electrum'],
    data_files=data_files,
    py_modules=[
        'electrum.account',
        'electrum.bitcoin',
        'electrum.blockchain',
        'electrum.bmp',
        'electrum.commands',
        'electrum.i18n',
        'electrum.interface',
        'electrum.mnemonic',
        'electrum.msqr',
        'electrum.network',
        'electrum.plugins',
        'electrum.pyqrnative',
        'electrum.simple_config',
        'electrum.socks',
        'electrum.transaction',
        'electrum.util',
        'electrum.verifier',
        'electrum.version',
        'electrum.wallet',
        'electrum.wallet_bitkey',
        'electrum.wallet_factory',
        'electrum_gui.gtk',
        'electrum_gui.qt.__init__',
        'electrum_gui.qt.amountedit',
        'electrum_gui.qt.console',
        'electrum_gui.qt.history_widget',
        'electrum_gui.qt.icons_rc',
        'electrum_gui.qt.installwizard',
        'electrum_gui.qt.lite_window',
        'electrum_gui.qt.main_window',
        'electrum_gui.qt.network_dialog',
        'electrum_gui.qt.password_dialog',
        'electrum_gui.qt.qrcodewidget',
        'electrum_gui.qt.receiving_widget',
        'electrum_gui.qt.seed_dialog',
        'electrum_gui.qt.transaction_dialog',
        'electrum_gui.qt.util',
        'electrum_gui.qt.version_getter',
        'electrum_gui.stdio',
        'electrum_gui.text',
        'electrum_plugins.aliases',
        'electrum_plugins.coinbase_buyback',
        'electrum_plugins.exchange_rate',
        'electrum_plugins.labels',
        'electrum_plugins.pointofsale',
        'electrum_plugins.qrscanner',
        'electrum_plugins.virtualkeyboard',
    ],
    description="Lightweight Bitcoin Wallet",
    author="ecdsa",
    author_email="ecdsa@github",
    license="GNU GPLv3",
    url="http://electrum.org",
    long_description="""Lightweight Bitcoin Wallet"""
)

Answer 1

It seems your Windows system does not have "HOME" env variable! So in line 20 os.getenv('HOME') returns None type because "HOME" has been not defined in windows enviroment and the second argument has not specified (default is None).

I suggest you use other alternative:

Replace:

os.path.join(os.getenv("HOME"), ".local", "share")

To:

os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".local", "share")

In this case it will to map to CURRENT user's home directory in Windows.

os.path.expanduser