Hi !
I have a new question regarding packaging of standalone Python application
using cx_freeze.
Just in preamble, a bit of context :
- We are building an open-source text-mining python server application for
research, using a lot of existing python libs
- we have the following dependencies: Numpy, Twisted, (py-)BerkeleyDB,
zope.interface, simplejson, yaml
- Still, we have been asked to make it a "no additional bumper required"
application (example of use cases: restrained environment without network
connection, no admin access or install, or usb-key bootable app..)
- we still though this was feasible, so we decided to to build 4 versions
(linux32, linux64, mac, win32)
- We turned to tools like py2exe/app, pyinstall, and cx_freeze to make the
job easier
But this task appear to be difficult, because of these heavy dependencies
(numpy, berkeley..)
We have some results for Windows (binaries looks portable), but on other
platforms, like mac or linux,
this looks hard.
By example, I tried to run our app under debian32 (it was built with
cx_freeze under ubuntu32)
but it failed : issue with numpy.so, which has an external dependency on
glibc at a particular version.
I don't have any idea on how resolve this kind of dependency without using
the standard system packaging system..
So, my question is :
- does someone had to do something similar ? is there a solution to this
kind of issue (handling of external dependencies/libs) ?
- it is even feasible to package such program ? or should we abandon and
instead turn to a "local install" packaging ?
if someone here had to deal with this kind of packaging, and has any hint, I
would be very, very thankful !
Julian
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