How much of those 40MB is Open Babel, and how much is random Python
libraries you don't need? I always strip out a ton of Python dlls
(e.g. Tkinter, numpy) when using those tools.

- Noel

On 28 November 2014 at 12:03, Mathias Laurin <mathias.lau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am including Open Babel in a Python program of mine that I
> distribute as an exe file to Windows users thanks to py2exe. I
> actually only need support for about 15 formats and gen2D.
>
> I found I could distribute the shared version with the OB
> plugins I need but that requires users to set BABEL_LIBDIR to my
> program's directory, which is not acceptable.
>
> What I do now is distribute the nonshared version, that contains
> every plugin and is about 40 MB after compression.  That is OK
> but still.
>
> I had a look at
> `http://openbabel.org/wiki/CMake#Creating_custom_static_binaries`
> but it seems to only support pure C++ programs and not
> py2exe/Python.
>
>
> Any way to reduce the size of the library for py2exe?
> Mathias
>
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