How can I deploy my application to the „customer“ so he does not have to install anything else? There are some alternatives with comparison on this site. Here I will show you a way how to freeze your kivy project via pyInstaller under win7.

#and now it’s working !!

pyInstaller

Is now availible also for Python 3, with GPL license.

According to documentation here you should do the following:

• Install pyInstaller
• Through kivy34.exe
• Create spec file by pyinstall

  $ cd dir\where\I\want\to\build
  $ pyinstall --name project-name ..\path\to\python\file.py

• Than to meddle with the (.spec) file found in the current dir
• You must install required packages:

  ('pygame', 'text_pygame', 'LabelPygame'),
      ('sdlttf', 'text_sdlttf', 'LabelSDLttf'),
      ('pil', 'text_pil', 'LabelPIL'),

• installed pygame – didnt help with
  pil – ImportError: cannot import name ‚ImageFont‘
• recompiled the latest kivi source code from git master
  • as in this instructions
  • if 1.9.1 and on computer with integrated GPU (not dedicated) you may run into error:
    
    • Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!
  • don’t warry, its just not detecting one of the modules, to solve you just need to implicitly turn it of
  • just add this snippet into your App class build function:

    def build(self):
       Config.set('graphics', 'multisamples', 0) 
       return RootWidget()

• started Kivy3.4.bat

  $ >pyinstaller --name touchtracer "..\kivy34\examples\demo\touchtracer\main.py"

  • name should be same as the top most directory
• correct the spec file (25-10-2015) „as follows“
  http://pastebin.com/YKYVgLX4
• started Kivy3.4.bat

  $ >pyinstaller touchtracer.spec

The original steps rewritten by me – does not include the OpenGL glitch solving  (25-10-2015)

Trouble makers

• you should not copy the kivy directory from official distribution inside your projects directory to start it – if it asks for missing files the spec file correction is not right