Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2020-12-22, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2020-12-22, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > >> > [...] > >> > > >> > How realistic/possible would it be to run the utility in a separate > >> > environment with its own copies of Python2 and any modules and > >> > libraries needed? I would install these 'by hand', i.e. not using > >> > 'apt' so they would stay as installed even as my system gets upgraded. > >> > >> If you do have it running on a Linux system, then there are tools to > >> "bundle" it with all the required libraries. The one that I've used > >> most recently is cx_freeze (I generally use it to create bundles for > >> Windows): > >> > >> https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html > >> > >> If you want to use it for a 2.7 app, you'd need to use 5.1 > > > > That looks a good approach, thank you. > > I should have mentioned that bundlers like cx_freeze require that you > have the Python source for the main app. I don't remember if you > mentioned source or not... > Yes, I do have the Python source. The only thing I don't have the source for is a .so file and that's why I can't simply migrate the program(s) from Python 2 to Python 3.
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