What you are looking for are 2 apps:
1) Something to freeze your application into something that resembles an installation like what comes on commercial applications. On Windows a popular choice is py2exe. All dependent .py, .pyd, etc. files can be included in the distribution. It also includes necessary python .dlls.
2) Something to create a distribution. On Windows a popular choice seems to be Inno Installer. It creates a single setup.exe file that can be distributed and is very flexible.
Hope info helps. Larry Bates Syscon, Inc.
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Eddie Parker wrote:
What I’m looking for, is a way to turn a python ‘application’, into a ‘stand-alone’ application. i.e., you don’t need the Python interpreter, libraries, etc, installed on your hard drive. (I’m OK with .py files existing – I just don’t want to have to bother the user to install more then just my app).
you cannot run Python without a Python interpreter -- but you can ship the interpreter DLL and the necessary library components with your app, and you can use bundling tools to reduce the number of files to a minimum:
http://effbot.org/zone/python-compile.htm http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/DistributionUtilities
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