I've recently been looking into different options to package python code into stand-alone executables, with tools like Py2EXE and PyInstaller, but I'm left feeling a little lost. Documentation seems sparse on all of them, the setups a little unusual to me. It feels like they could be a lot simpler, or that I could put in some preliminary work to make it easier for my needs in the long run. I'm hoping someone can help me pick the best option.
What I would love to do (or know if it is possible) is have a set of executables, for Linux, Windows, and OS X, with a Zip archive appended to the end of them. I know the zip archive at the end of an executable works with EXE and ELF binaries, but does it work for whatever OSX uses (I have no mac machines, currently)? I'd like to build these three empty stand-alone python executables, setup such that they'll run any main.py sitting at the top level of the archive. After this, building for all three platforms would just be a matter of copying the empty versions and dumping the project into it. I'm leaning on doing this with PyInstaller being the easiest. Am I headed in the right direction? Ideally, these empty stand-alones could be distributed for use by others without any tools required to use them other than a zip utility. -- Read my blog! I depend on your acceptance of my opinion! I am interesting! http://techblog.ironfroggy.com/ Follow me if you're into that sort of thing: http://www.twitter.com/ironfroggy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
