py2exe windows service problem

Question

I have successfully converted my python project to a service. When using the usual options of install and start/stop, everything works correctly. However, I wish to compile the project using py2exe, which seems to work correctly until you install the EXE as a service and try and run it.

You get the following error message:

• Starting service CherryPyService
• Error starting service: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

My compile python file (which links to the main project) is as follows:

• from distutils.core import setup

• import py2exe

• setup(console=['webserver.py'])

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You setup.py file should contain

setup(service=["webserver.py"])

as shown in the "old" py2exe docs

Answer 2

You will find an example in the py2exe package, look in site-packages\py2exe\samples\advanced.