On Sep 24, 8:17 am, Marin Brkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving > the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving > .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer > maintenance, they don't (and cannot) have installed python (except the > ones that bring their own computer at work, but those are an > exception). > > As far as I know py2exe is the only option which can do such a thing > (make exe files from scripts). Is there a way to make those exe files > a little smaller (for a small script they easily go up to 5-10 mb). > > Has anyone had a situation like this ? All your inputs and suggestions > are more then welcomed. > > -- > Marin
It ends up being so large because of the dlls that are needed. There are other ways to distribute programs listed here: http://www.freehackers.org/Packaging_a_python_program Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
