Dec. 1, 2000
8:10 a.m.
Beats me. I'm not even sure if the Distutils offers a way to compile a static Python binary. (GPW: well, does it?)
It's in the CCompiler interface, but hasn't been exposed to the outside world. (IOW, it's mainly a question of desiging the right setup script/command line interface: the implementation should be fairly straightforward, assuming the existing CCompiler classes do the right thing for generating binary executables.) Distutils currently only supports build_*** commands for C-libraries and Python extensions.
Shouldn't there also be build commands for shared libraries, executable programs and static Python binaries? Thomas BTW: Distutils-sig seems pretty dead these days...