Hello, I have another, probably stupid, question. I'm working on some Python project, and I use some extensions written in C. I do all the development on my GNU/Linux box, so my setup.py script works just as it's supposed to work on a GNU/Linux system. But in the nearest future I'll have to make an executable program for Windows.
I know, that there are some useful tools to make executables from Python programs for Windows (Py2Exe, PyInstaller - that's what I have heard about), but, as far as I understand the subject, I'll need the extensions modules (dll files? on my GNU/Linux system I always get some so files - shared libraries) in the compiled form in order to make any executable program. In the Python standard documentation I have read, that: "(...) Since the metadata is taken from the setup script, creating Windows installers is usually as easy as running: python setup.py bdist_wininst (...) If you have a non-pure distribution, the extensions can only be created on a Windows platform, and will be Python version dependent. (...)" And that's the problem: I understand the fact, that in order to build a non-pure distrubution, all the C sources have to be compiled (to dll libraries?). But there's the problem: I don't know which one compiler should I use. Do I have to use the same compiler, that the Python has been compiled with? If so, which one of the Windows compilers has been used to compile Python? Or perhaps could I use an another compiler? Which one, then? I have no idea what to do. I haven't done anything on Windows for so long... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
