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.

I am getting 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'])

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

Check that your setup.py file should contain:

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