[Python-ideas] Calling python from C completely statically

[Alberto Garcia]

Does the zip need to reside in disk to be loaded. Or can it be loaded from
memory? I don't want it to be loaded from disk but from Memory



On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 9:59 AM Alberto Garcia <agarciaillera at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ohhhhhhhh  I guess you mean this:
>
> https://github.com/anthony-tuininga/cx_Freeze/blob/master/source/bases/Common.c
>
> Right?
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 9:48 AM Alberto Garcia <agarciaillera at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your response,
>>
>> I was thinking on creating that zip file with the content of the Lib
>> folder and having my c code to download it over the network and have it in
>> memory.
>> I guess that the zip file should have no compression at all right?
>>
>> When you say that I need to use the cx_freeze approach what do you mean?
>> Can you point me to where they do that?
>>
>> And why changing sys.path again to the executable again? Which part of
>> the executable?
>>
>> I'll put my efforts in this.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 7:16 AM Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9 July 2018 at 03:10, Alberto Garcia <agarciaillera at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hey there,
>>> >
>>> > Yes, the part of having the pyd modules built in in library is already
>>> done.
>>> > I followed the instructions in the README. What I would like to know
>>> now is
>>> > how to embed the non frozen python (py) modules. Can you guys please
>>> point
>>> > me in the right direction.
>>>
>>> The gist is to:
>>>
>>> 1. take the entire Lib directory and put it in a zip archive
>>> 2. use the approach demonstrated in cx_freeze to point sys.path in
>>> your static executable at that zip archive
>>> 3. adjust your C code to point sys.path back at the executable itself,
>>> and then combine your executable and the zip archive into a single
>>> contiguous file (similar to what zipapp does with it's helper script
>>> and app archive)
>>>
>>> There are likely to still be rough edges when doing that, since this
>>> isn't a well tested configuration. When all else fails, find the part
>>> of the source code responsible for any error messages you're seeing,
>>> and try to work out if there's a setting you can tweak to avoid
>>> hitting that code path.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nick.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>>>
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