gif files don't show after compiling with py2exe (using PyQt)

[illuminatedwax]

For some reason on my system (Windows XP 32-bit, Python 2.6) PyQt is able to display gifs perfectly when run in the python interpreter, but when I run it through py2exe, they no longer display.

I've tried everything I've googled: copying the gif DLLs from PyQt into an imageformats/ folder, done a setLibraryPaths to where the imageformat DLLs were, copied the setup file from http://wiki.wxpython.org/py2exe-python26 .

Nothing seems to work -- what on earth could I be doing wrong?

[wysota]

Can you display say... jpg files? What about png files?

[illuminatedwax]

.jpgs do not show, .png files do.

Dunno if this helps, but I checked with ProcessExplorer: if I copy the plugins/imageformats into the py2exe application's folder (as has worked for other people with this problem), the application does actually use those DLLs, but it still doesn't work. When I run the program as a python script, .jpgs and .gifs show and I find it is using the same DLLs (in the C:\Python26\... dir) that I copied to the application folder.

[wysota]

Directory with the executable has to contain a subdirectory called imageformats that contains the files implementing the plugins. If you are using Qt in debug mode, you need plugins with "d" in their name (i.e. qjpegd4.dll or something like that).

[illuminatedwax]

I've tried copying the gif DLLs from PyQt into an imageformats/ and as I stated earlier, it doesn't work. What I was saying was that with the process manager was that when I run it as a python script, it uses the DLLs in Python26/Lib/<qt dir>, and when I copy those DLLs to the folder the executable is in (as imageformats/), it uses them but it still doesn't display the jpgs or gifs properly.

I am fairly certain I am not using Qt in debug mode, since I haven't set any options to do so.