Smallest Standalone Distributable Possible?
Kragen Sitaker
kragen at dnaco.net
Tue Apr 3 04:10:17 EDT 2001
In article <9abvl4$4bqha$1 at ID-59885.news.dfncis.de>,
Thomas Heller <thomas.heller at ion-tof.com> wrote:
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>"Kragen Sitaker" <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote in message news:lUey6.23196$BC6.6135045 at e3500-chi1.usenetserver.com...
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>> Thanks! Neither is quite what I want (even py2exe, despite being
>> incredibly cool, can't link pythonXX.dll into the resulting executable
>> statically) but both are major steps in the right direction. If I can
>> get Freeze to do static linking on Windows --- ideally only of the
>> modules my program uses --- I will be happy.
>Two points:
>- Gordon's installer can create single file applications (which will
>dynamically unpack at runtime, and clean up afterwards).
Oh, I didn't understand that part. I thought they unpacked when you
ran them and had a facility to clean up on request. Thanks!
>- I have experimental code which will (eventually) merge dlls and
>pyds into the exe-file. Don't know if and when I can make this available,
>it is in an very early stage, also I'm not sure about the benefits.
It's very beneficial to some people, useless to others, I think.
Thanks very much for the info!
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