"Stevie Broadfoot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > what is a good program to make an executable for all platforms.
I'm not totally clear what you are expecting here. Python scripts are executable on all platforms as they stand, you just need the appropriate interpreter to be installed. Much like a Java program can run on any platform that has the JVM installed. > py2app is for osx I thought py2app simply packaged a Python application into a MacOS app 'bundle', ie the standard Mac file format/structure. Python still needs to be installed on the Mac, albeit as part of the bundle. > py2exe is for windows Whereas py2exe produces a binary format file containing the python interpreter plus any files needed for your application. This file works like a normal windows binary executable. > can I use for linux, windows and macosx. It is impossible to produce a single executable binary file that will run natively on all 3 OS, so if that's what you are looking for it doesn't exist. The nerarest thing would be to use Jython and compile into Java bytecode, relying on the fact that most computers now have a JVM installed. However, if you only want a single tool to produce three different native executable formats then I suspect Gordon MacMillan's installer might be the closest, although I'm not sure of its status since I haven't heard of anyone using it recently. But it certainly didv Linux and Windows and I wouldn't be surprised if it now did Mac too... > Or does there not exist such a program? > I'm on ubuntu edgy eft at the moment. These kind of executable bundling programs aren't that commonly used on Unix programs because there is a long tradition of using scripting languages on Unix. Nearly all Unix installs come with a range of interpreters (sh, sed, awk, m4, perl, Tcl, scheme, etc) and adding Python, in the rare case that its not there already, is unlikely to stress out any Unix admin. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
