Hello, I'm trying to package my python program into a linux executable using cx_freeze. The goal is that the user should require python on their system.
I've managed to make the binaries on Fedora Core 6 and they run fine. However, when I move to Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu Server 7.04 and xUbuntu Desktop 7.04), the program fails to run with the following error: ImportError: no module named _md5 _md5 being imported by the hashlib module because the import of _hashlib.so failed. When I try to import the _hashlib module manually, I see that it cannot find libssl.so.6 (The _hashlib module in the standard python installation which came with Ubuntu works just fine). If I manually copy the libssl.so.6 file from FC6 (its really a symlink pointing to libssl.so.0.9.8b) to Ubuntu and make the symlink in /lib, it works fine (the next error is related to libcrypto, libxslt and libjpeg (i'm also using libxml, libxsl and PIL in my application). I've scoured the net and it seems that _hashlib.so is dynamically linked to libssl which is not being "integrated" into the build by cx_Freeze. Similarly, there are other files with the same problem. Does anyone have any idea how to make cx_Freeze make a linux executable which is portable across *nix distros? Thanks in advance, -Prateek Sureka -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
