I plan to use PyInstaller to create a stand-alone python executable. PythonInstaller comes with built-in support for UPX and uses it to compress the executable but they are still really huge (about 2,7 mb). Is there any way to create even smaller Python executables? For example using a shrinked python.dll or something similiar? ...
Hi, how to create a good plugin engine for standalone executables created with pyInstaller, py2exe or similar tools? I do not have experience with py2exe, but pyInstaller uses an import hook to import packages from it's compressed repository. Of course I am able to import dynamically another compressed repository created with pyInstall...
I have an application that resides in a single .py file. I've been able to get pyInstaller to bundle it successfully into an EXE for Windows. The problem is, the application requires a .cfg file that always sits directly beside the application in the same directory. Normally, I build the path using the following code: import os confi...
Does anyone know if there's a windows Python executable creator program available now that supports Python 3.0.1? It seems that py2exe and pyInstaller, along with all the rest I've found, still aren't anywhere close to supporting 3.0 or 3.0.1. Any help is greatly appreciated. Edit: I guess I could downgrade the program to an older vers...
I'm starting a small/medium-sized python project, likely in Test Driven Development. My backgrounds are more in C and java than python (I used ant and makefile) I know that in python you might not need a build tool, but I will, because I'll use cython and PyInstaller (the thing should work on a couple of different UNIXes, without depend...
Hi all. I built a rather simple application in Python 3.1 using PyQt4. Being done, I want the application to be distributed to computers without either of those installed. I almost exclusively care about Windows platforms, so my goal is to have a single executable file and maybe some resource files and .dlls in the end. Having searche...
I'm trying to deploy my Python based application on another Linux host. Pyinstaller works flawlessly as long as I run the generated executable on my own system. On the target box I get this error message: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory As the output of ldd shows Pyinstaller links my ap...
I'm working with PyInstaller under Python 2.6, which is only partially supported due to the mess MS have created with their manifest nonense which now affects Python since it is now MSVC8 compiled. The problem is that the manifest embedding support relies on the pywin32 extensions in order to build which is a pain because without includ...
I have a cherrypy app that I've made an exe with pyinstaller. now when I run the exe it loads itself twice into memory. Watching the taskmanager shows the first instance load into about 1k, then a second later a second instance of hte exe loads into about 3k ram. If I close the bigger one both processes die. If I close hte smaller one o...
I have a cherrypy app compiled with pyinstaller. One function does the following: cherrypy.engine.stop() sys.exit() the cherrypy engine stops without problem, but the process doesn't actually die and I can't figure out why. ...
I'm trying to compile a very simple wxPython script into an executable by using PyInstaller on Windows Vista. The Python script is nothing but a Hello World in wxPython. I'm trying to get that up and running as a Windows executable before I add any of the features that the program needs to have. But I'm already stuck. I've jumped throu...
im trying to build an executable (for 32bit windows xp) from a python script (which uses lots of eggs) i considered py2exe(0.6.9), PyInstaller (1.4) and cx_Freeze (4.1.2) py2exe doesnt like eggs for breakfast PyInstaller doesnt like python 2.6 for lunch) so i went with cx_Freeze (supposed to support eggs seamlessly since 4.0). but fo...
I have a program that uses the win32com library to control iTunes, but have been having some issues getting it to compile into an executable. The problem seems to revolve around using DispatchWithEvents instead of Dispatch. I've created a very simple program to illustrate my problem: import win32com.client win32com.client.gencache.is_re...
I am attempting to follow this guide to make a simple Hello World script into an .exe file. I have Windows Vista with an AMD 64-bit processor I have installed Python 2.6.5 (Windows AMD64 version) I have set the PATH (if that's the right word) so that the command line recognizes Python I have installed UPX (there only seems to be a 32-bi...
There are several utilities — all with different procedures, limitations, and target operating systems — for getting a Python package and all of its dependencies and turning them into a single binary program that is easy to ship to customers: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze http://www.pyinstaller.org/ http://www.py2exe.org/ http://s...
Could someone tell me which is better of the two for bundling Python applications — cxFreeze or pyInstaller? I'm looking for a comparison based on factors such as: Popularity (i.e. larger user base) Footprint of the built binary Cross platform compatibility Ease of use Thanks. ...