Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-13 Thread Kevin Walzer
Larry Bates wrote: > Kevin Walzer wrote: >> Which of the Windows/Unix package builders for Python applications is >> capable of creating single-file executables? I'm thinking of: >> >> 1. py2exe >> 2. Mcmillan Installer/PyInstaller >> 3. cxfreeze >> >> The apps I've seen created by py2exe aren't si

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-13 Thread Larry Bates
Kevin Walzer wrote: > Which of the Windows/Unix package builders for Python applications is > capable of creating single-file executables? I'm thinking of: > > 1. py2exe > 2. Mcmillan Installer/PyInstaller > 3. cxfreeze > > The apps I've seen created by py2exe aren't single-file at all, the > ins

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Thomas Heller wrote: > I wonder if anyone is actually using freeze on Windows, with scripts > that use, say, pywin32 and wxPython. Interesting question. I've never done so myself (only on Linux and Solaris), and given the relatively small interest in having a static Python library on Windows, I g

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-12 Thread Thomas Heller
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Kevin Walzer wrote: >> The apps I've seen created by py2exe aren't single-file at all, the >> install folder is full of files besides the main program. I'm >> looking for a solution that stuffs all libraries, scripts, and the >> Python runtime into one file. Usually the

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-12 Thread Ravi Teja
As Peter later pointed out, that is a licencing issue rather than a tool issue. After browsing through the PyInstaller documentation, I came across a curious snippet. "On Windows, this provides support for doing in-process COM servers. It is not generalized. However, embedders can follow the same

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-12 Thread Peter Hansen
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Ravi Teja wrote: >>Actually, py2exe (from version 0.6.1) onwards does create single file >>exes without ANY additional dependencies. > > They still require an external MSVCR71.DLL if made with Python 2.4. > PyInstaller > 1.1 (to be released today) does not have this problem

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-12 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Ravi Teja wrote: > Actually, py2exe (from version 0.6.1) onwards does create single file > exes without ANY additional dependencies. They still require an external MSVCR71.DLL if made with Python 2.4. PyInstaller 1.1 (to be released today) does not have this problem. -- Giovanni Bajo -- http:

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-11 Thread James Stroud
Kevin Walzer wrote: > Which of the Windows/Unix package builders for Python applications is > capable of creating single-file executables? I'm thinking of: > > 1. py2exe > 2. Mcmillan Installer/PyInstaller > 3. cxfreeze > > The apps I've seen created by py2exe aren't single-file at all, the > ins

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-11 Thread Ravi Teja
Actually, py2exe (from version 0.6.1) onwards does create single file exes without ANY additional dependencies. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Single-file executables

2006-02-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Kevin Walzer wrote: > The apps I've seen created by py2exe aren't single-file at all, the > install folder is full of files besides the main program. I'm looking > for a solution that stuffs all libraries, scripts, and the Python > runtime into one file. For full control, and truly single-binary e