Using McMillan Installer, PyInstall or py2exe cross-platform?

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

has anybody used McMillan Installer, PyInstall or py2exe cross-platform?

I have a Windows partition with Python installed there, so this would
"only" required working on a different directory and for a different OS.
Since I'm working on Linux, it's awful to boot Windows each time I want
to build a new release.

Any hint in this area?

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Hartmut Goebel

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[David Lyon]

Hi Hartmut,

I can sympathise with you on this one...

There are a few options...

there is a python based "bake" make like program... that is useful...
http://projects.bertram-scharpf.de/bake/bake1.html

then there is Wine... that is a windows emulator under linux... that
might be pretty easy.... http://www.winehq.org/

If you want to get more heavy-weight, then get a virtual machine.

But as per your question... the above specified options might satisfy
your requests for speed and ease of use without having to change O/S.

Regards

David

 

[Hartmut Goebel]

there is a python based "bake" make like program... that is useful...
http://projects.bertram-scharpf.de/bake/bake1.html

I'm not in the need of a build program I would use Scons therefor,
anyway.

then there is Wine... that is a windows emulator under linux... that
might be pretty easy.... http://www.winehq.org/

I don't like to use winw here, it would nor fit into my release process.

I started working on cross-pyinstall today.


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[Paul Boddie]

I started working on cross-pyinstall today.

Let us know how you get on! In theory, one should be able to build
Python (and derived works) using the mingw32 libraries and a suitable
cross-compiler on platforms other than Windows, but I've never
bothered to do so myself.

Paul

 

[Hartmut Goebel]

Let us know how you get on! In theory, one should be able to build
Python (and derived works) using the mingw32 libraries and a suitable
cross-compiler on platforms other than Windows, but I've never
bothered to do so myself.

Pyinstaller trunk is now able to build exe for Windows on Linux/Unix.
This includes only the "bundling" of scripts and modules into an exe,
not compiling anything.

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Hartmut Goebel

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