Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-29 Thread BlueBird
Hi, Some time ago, I compiled a small list of tools to perform the some "python executable bundling" tasks. It might be useful for you. Here is the list: http://www.freehackers.org/Packaging_a_python_program Philippe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-25 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Paul Boddie wrote: > Any suggestions, then? ;-) Not really; I've got a vaguely similar problem myself -- several Debian systems with Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. But modules I need (wxWidgets 2.8 and Twisted) aren't available as Python 2.5 packages for Debian, so I'm stuck with 2.4. Packages from un

Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-24 Thread Carl Banks
On Oct 24, 5:08 pm, Prateek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 24, 5:25 pm, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 24 Okt, 14:20, Bjoern Schliessmann > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm sorry I cannot help, but how many linux distros have no python > > > installed or no packages of

Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-24 Thread Prateek
On Oct 24, 5:25 pm, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24 Okt, 14:20, Bjoern Schliessmann > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry I cannot help, but how many linux distros have no python > > installed or no packages of it? > > It's not usually the absence of Python that's the problem.

Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Boddie
On 24 Okt, 16:10, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > It's not usually the absence of Python that's the problem. What if > > your application uses various extension modules which in turn rely > > on various libraries (of the .so or .a kind)? It may be more > > convenient to bundle

Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-24 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Paul Boddie wrote: > It's not usually the absence of Python that's the problem. What if > your application uses various extension modules which in turn rely > on various libraries (of the .so or .a kind)? It may be more > convenient to bundle all these libraries instead of working out > the package

Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Boddie
On 24 Okt, 14:20, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > > I'm sorry I cannot help, but how many linux distros have no python > installed or no packages of it? It's not usually the absence of Python that's the problem. What if your application uses various extension modules which in turn rely on various li

Re: building a linux executable

2007-10-24 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
Prateek wrote: > I'm trying to package my python program into a linux executable > using cx_freeze. The goal is that the user should require python > on their system. > > I've managed to make the binaries on Fedora Core 6 and they run > fine. However, when I move to Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu Serve