Thanks for all this. I'm using GUI2EXE with PY2EXE & running into
problems, but they seem to be the sort which can be resolved. I'm
also discovering Windows bugs in PyOpenGL 3--perhaps I need to
downgrade to PyOpenGL 2.
Randolph
On Oct 27, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
R Fritz wrote:
OK. The app works, well, sort-of. (Alpha, 0.12.1.) So now I want
to package it for Windows (& then Mac, & then Linux.) It's a mutt
of an app, with a GUI in WxPython, and 3D visualization component
that uses OpenSceneGraph, C++ wrappers, and Boost.Python. Any
advice for someone who hasn't done this before?
Mac:
On the Mac, the only choice is py2app to make your app a stand-alone
- it will probably require some tweaking by hand, as py2app is a bit
under-maintained, but it's not too hard to do that. Mac app bundles
are really just directories with a particular structure, so it's not
hard to manipulate them with a little custom python in your setup.py.
NOTE: I think PyInstaller has some Mac support now -- I'm not sure
what the state of that is, but it may be worth checking out.
You can build a Mac mpkg if you need to install stuff outside the
app bundle -- I haven't done it, but again, it's pretty much a
directory with some xml describing it -- doesn't look too hard.
Windows:
py2exe or PyInstaller. I've been using py2exe, but I've been getting
frustrated with it lately -- it seems a bit under-maintained as
well. I haven't tried PyInstaller.
You can use InnoSetup to make an installer -- it's a nice, easy to
use tool.
Linux:
The best way is probably distro-specific packages -- a pain if you
want to support a lot of distros, but it works. Ideally you have a
at least one savy user for each distro that can maintain the
package. You can also use PyInstaller on Linux, but it's still going
to depend on system libs, etc. I've never tried that.
there is also cxFreeze and bbFreeze. bbFreeze looks pretty good, but
is missing a few features. I've never looked at cxFreeze.
Too many options!
-Chris
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