Creating Python "executables" on Windows?

Azratax azratax at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 16 23:45:34 EDT 2000


In article <uog2sokf3.fsf at ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com>, David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx.com> wrote:
>Alan Miller <ajm at enteract.com> writes:
>
>> I've also not seen any mention of Gordon McMillan's Installer, which 
>> bundles a Python program, the modules it uses (determined recursively) 
>> and the core Python files and bundles them all together into a .EXE file.  
>> I've found it to work quite nicely.
>
>Yep (also on http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install1.html), and the
>'standalone' output from that tool, combined with a free Windows
>installation program like Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org) works
>pretty darn well to make a Python script install and look just like a
>normal piece of Windows distribution.
>
Wow... this seems to be just what i am looking for... but how does one use the 
standalone exe-making program?! what do i type in at a dos prompt? i have no 
idea how to call python from comandline... 
         -Az



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