That's discouraging. I can still use a lot of the packages that sage comes with to create the program in python and then compile to exe, right?
Thanks for your quick response. On Aug 12, 2:56 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, fitzsnaggle <fitzsnag...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I don't undestand why not though. If it is possible to do this python, > > then why not with sage? > > Sage is an extremely complicated program involving over 5 million > lines of code and multiple running processes and programs that have to > be run in a very specific environment. In addition, it is currently > not possible to build about half of Sage at all under Microsoft > Windows, and estimates range from 2 to 100 years of hard work (which > isn't going on, anyways) to change that. > > -- William > > > > > > > On Aug 12, 2:46 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:41 PM, fitzsnaggle <fitzsnag...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > I am running Sage on vmware. I'm wondering if I can make a piece of my > >> > program with sage and then turn that into a python script and then > >> > cross-compile it to run as a windows exe that people without Sage or > >> > Python can use. > > >> This is absolutely not possible, in general. Sorry. > > >> William > > >> > On Aug 12, 2:14 pm, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Aug 12, 11:06 pm, fitzsnaggle <fitzsnag...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >> >> > Is it possible to make a script on sage, import its libraries into a > >> >> > python script and then compile that script as a standalone windows exe > >> >> > using py2exe or pyinstaller? > > >> >> Technically, I think yes - but that would not do anything useful at > >> >> all. I suggest you to join the sage-windows group to be updated about > >> >> the development towards running Sage on windows. For now, you need to > >> >> emulate a Linux environment. For that, run the provided vmware image. > > >> >> H > > >> > -- > >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >> > For more options, visit this group > >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org > > >> -- > >> William Stein > >> Professor of Mathematics > >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > > -- > > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
