build a binary for Windows on Linux, Solaris or Mac OSX?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Tue Jul 6 15:44:08 EDT 2004


On 2004-07-06, Christopher T King <squirrel at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>> I'd like to package up my typing watcher script in a bundled form (no
>> separate Python install required) for use on Windows.  (Un)fortunately, I
>> don't have access to a Windows computer.  Do any of the packaging tools
>> (py2exe, MacMillan's Installer, etc) allow cross-platform bundling?
>
> I've gotten py2exe to work under Wine. It takes a little bit of work, 
> though, mostly downloading real Windows DLLs (if you don't have copies 
> lying around).

I use Win4Lin to run WinMe under Linux.  py2exe and inno setup
both work fine on WinMe under Win4Lin.

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