[IronPython] compiling an executable with the standard library

[Dino Viehland]

socket is actually a built-in in IronPython.  So you really only need threading.  But threading depends upon functools, and collections, and traceback.  I'm not sure how far the transitive closure goes so let's just assume you'll need to compile the entire standard library.  You can actually compile this into its own DLL using pyc.  So you could do:

import System
import pyc
files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.6\Lib')
files = [f for f in files if f.endswith('.py')]
import pyc
pyc.Main(files + ['/out:stdlib.dll'])

I'm just importing pyc directly here because for whatever reason it doesn't accept wildcards.

There's a bug in 2.6.1 which prevents this from working - it'll be fixed in 2.6.2.  You could compile w/ 2.6.0 to get a working EXE or you could remove any std lib modules that fail to compile.

Now you can just do a clr.AddReference('stdlib.dll') in your script and the std lib will be available to you.


From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Evans
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:50 AM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: [IronPython] compiling an executable with the standard library

I am having problems compiling an executable. From what research I have done, I need to include in my compilation the python standard modules that I am using. How ever I can not figure out how to do this.

Any advice would be appreciated here is the command I am using

ipy <path to pyc>\pyc.py /main:<path to app>\p2pChat.py /target:exe

these are the modules used in my script

import socket
from threading import *

Thank you in advance

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