Hello everyone,
I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
it and runs it. Has anyone ever done anything like that? I searched
google but didn't find anything really, and currently, even in my dev
env, I have to set the PYTHONPATH manually, and for a standalone app I
couldn't do that for example.
Thank you,
Gabriel
4  2012 
I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
it and runs it.
I don't think this can possibly work. If the zipfile contains the Python
interpreter, it can't possibly work on all platforms - the Python
interpreter is run as native machine code of the respective CPU.
So either you drop the requirement that the zipfile must be
cross-platform, or you drop the requirement that the Python interpreter
is included in the zipfile.
Notice that Mac OS *.app dirs are *not* cross-platform, either - they
only work on Mac OS.
Regards,
Martin
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
it and runs it.
I don't think this can possibly work. If the zipfile contains the Python
interpreter, it can't possibly work on all platforms - the Python
interpreter is run as native machine code of the respective CPU.
yes, I know that :-), I ment everything that can be, my problem is more
with PYTHONPATH and stuff like that.
So either you drop the requirement that the zipfile must be
cross-platform, or you drop the requirement that the Python interpreter
is included in the zipfile.
Notice that Mac OS *.app dirs are *not* cross-platform, either - they
only work on Mac OS.
Yes, I also know that, I was giving them as an example of how I'd like
it to work (out of the box)
Regards,
Martin
Regards,
Gabriel
yes, I know that :-), I ment everything that can be, my problem is more
with PYTHONPATH and stuff like that.
Then I don't understand what you meant. What is it (specifically!) that
you do, what happens, what do you want to happen instead?
Regards,
Martin
On Oct 17, 1:59*am, Gabriel Rossetti <gabriel.rosse. ..@arimaz.com>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
it and runs it. Has anyone ever done anything like that? I searched
google but didn't find anything really, and currently, even in my dev
env, I have to set the PYTHONPATH manually, and for a standalone app I
couldn't do that for example.
Thank you,
Gabriel
Use GUI2Exe. It can create frozen distributions for Mac, Windows and
Linux using py2exe, py2app, cxFreeze, etc.
Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/
You will (of course) need to have py2exe et al installed if you want
GUI2Exe to interface with them.
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