Freezing python files into executables

Girish Venkatasubramanian girishvs at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 16:23:04 EST 2009


Will try that.

Meanwhile I went ahead and used cx_freeze and that seems to work OK.

Thanks for your help Rami and Marc-Andre.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Rami Chowdhury
<rami.chowdhury at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:57:17 -0800, Girish Venkatasubramanian
> <girishvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I checked and ls /usr/lib64/python2.4/config/ returns
>> config.c config.c.in install-sh libpython2.4.a Makefile makesetup
>> python.o Setup Setup.config Setup.local
>>
>> so I am guessing the python-devel installation went off OK, from what you
>> say.
>>
>> I looked at the freeze.py code and I see your point. But for tweaking,
>> I would need to know what modules should get included from lib64
>> instead of lib and hardcode them ....
>> Maybe tinkering around with the makefile which is produced by freeze
>> is a better way to go?
>>
>> But since I need to freeze this python code by today, can you suggest
>> any other tool to do this?
>>
>
> I believe /usr/lib64 on a 64-bit RHEL will contain everything you need ; can
> you try just changing the directory freeze.py looks at to 'lib64', and see
> if the freeze works?
>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Girish Venkatasubramanian wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey Marc-Andre,
>>>> Ummm - I have installed python-devel.x86_64 and checked that the
>>>> /usr/lib64/python2.4/ is populated - anything else I can/shuld do to
>>>> check/ensure the the devel rpm is installed?
>>>
>>> If you have the config/ sub-dir in there, things should be
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> However, it's possible that you need to tweek the freeze.py
>>> script a little, since RedHat chose to split the Python
>>> installation on x64 in two parts and they may have missed
>>> patching freeze.py as well:
>>>
>>> The platform independent parts are in /usr/lib, whereas the
>>> platform dependent parts are in /usr/lib64.
>>>
>>> Python normally doesn't support this. It only has a
>>> prefix and an exec_prefix, but those only allow to do
>>> things like prefix=/usr and exec_prefix=/usr64, not
>>> changing the lib/ part in /usr/lib/.
>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Rami Chowdhury wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:15:39 -0800, Girish Venkatasubramanian
>>>>>> <girishvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> I have been using freeze.py on 32 bit linux distributions without a
>>>>>>> problem. But recently I tried to do the same on RHEL5 x86_64 and ran
>>>>>>> into some issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) When I ran the script, I got
>>>>>>> Error: needed directory /usr/lib/python2.4/config not found
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know anything about freeze.py but on 64-bit Red Hat distros
>>>>>> (RHEL, Fedora, etc) it should be /usr/lib64/python2.4/config :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> This sounds a lot like a missing Python devel RPM.
>>>>>
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