I want to package up some of my Python 3 scripts to run standalone, without depending on a system-installed Python. For my development, I use virtualenv and install all my dependencies in the virtualenv, develop the script and test it. When I'm done, I want to build an executable which can run without depending on a system Python. What's the best way of doing this? I previously would have used py2exe, but that seems not to have Python 3 support. I have heard good things about bbfreeze, but the author has stated that he has no intention of supporting Python 3 just yet. I've tried cx_Freeze, but I've hit a number of niggly problems which make me think it's not quite suitable (I've reported some of them on the cx_Freeze mailing list, but it seems pretty quiet - no real response).
That leaves me wondering if there's another option, or whether I should just roll my own. if I zip up the stdlib, and my virtualenv site-packages, and then put them plus the various Python DLLs in a directory, copy my script in, and write a small EXE to set PYTHONHOME and run Py_Main with my script as argument, that should do. But it seems a bit laborious :-( Is that really the best way? Things I care about: - Easy to package up a script - Works with dependencies in a virtualenv - Completely isolated from system Python (not even leaving directories on sys.path, so I can do basic tests without having to create a clean system with no Python installed). Things I don't (really) care about: - Stripping ununsed modules (although I'd like to omit "big" parts of the stdlib that aren't used - tkinter and test come to mind) - Space (the full stdlib is only 30M including pyc files, after all) Any suggestions gratefully accepted :-) Paul. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
