I've successfully automated the build of the embedded zip on Windows for 3.6 on my internal CI using tools/msi script.
Moving onto linux, can you please summarize the primary challenges/differences for creating the embeddable zip for linux? Gerald R. Wiltse jerrywil...@gmail.com On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 2:47 PM Gerald Wiltse <jerrywil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I'll help with this, and I try to get signed up with an account for > the issue tracker ASAP. > > I've just started trying to build create the embeddable package for > windows locally (all from source). Once I have that automated, I'll take a > naive stab at the Linux layout. I'm sure i'll soon hit the additional > complications you're talking about and come back to you with questions. > > Gerald R. Wiltse > jerrywil...@gmail.com > > > > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:57 PM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > >> On 01May2019 1305, Gerald Wiltse wrote: >> > That does help, thanks so much for the fast response! I now see how >> > it's executed on Azure pipelines also, so that should be enough for me >> > to reverse engineer the rest. >> > >> > Followup questions if you have time: >> > 1. It seems that directory doesn't exist in the 3.6 branches/tags, so >> it >> > must have been done a different way back then. Do you think it's >> > back-portable to 3.6? >> >> Yep, it should work with 3.6. There were scripts under Tools/msi back >> then that did the same thing, but with the Store app I rewrote it to be >> more flexible. >> >> > 2. One of our objectives is to effectively create a nearly identical >> > embeddable package for linux. Do you think the layout code is generic >> > enough to be modified to create a linux equivalent? >> >> Probably not, it's under the "PC" directory because it is entirely >> CPython specific. >> >> I'd love to be able to have a similar embeddable distro for Linux (and >> macOS), and I'll be investing some of my time in working towards this, >> but it's far more complicated than simply laying out the right files. If >> you're interested in helping with this, then we're in the right place to >> discuss it, but we'll likely have to move to the issue tracker at some >> point once we figure out who else wants/needs to be involved. >> >> > Obviously, there are many alternative methods and documents for >> creating >> > "embeddable" pythons on linux, but the windows package has all the >> > characteristics we want, and of course we'd like our Windows and Linux >> > process build and packaging processes to be as similar as possible, so >> > it seems attractive to try to port this layout script to linux. >> >> "make install" already does the same thing, but the install location >> matters at build time, so it's a little more complex to make it work as >> an embedded runtime. I'm sure there are people who know how to make it >> work though. >> >> Cheers, >> Steve >> >
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