python to exe

Jonathan Hartley tartley at tartley.com
Sun Mar 14 14:24:07 EDT 2010


On Mar 13, 1:45 pm, pyt... at bdurham.com wrote:
> Robin,
>
> > do you of an alternate compilter it doesn't work (py2exe) on my windows 7 box
>
> I can assure you that Py2exe does work on Windows 7 (my firm develops
> commercial Python applications packaged using Py2exe running on Windows
> 7), but it does take a bit of fiddling and some patience. Join the
> py2exe newsgroup and post your problems there.https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/py2exe-users
>
> You may also want to google 'Gui2exe'. This is a free front-end to
> Py2exe that you can use to generate your Py2exe setup.py scripts. Note
> that Gui2exe requires wxPython (free) to run.
>
> Finally, make sure you are trying to compile 32-bit Python 2.x code. I
> don't think py2exe supports Python 3.x or 64-bit versions of Python yet.
>
> > Nope; py2exe is pretty much the go-to tool for this.
>
> I hear great things about PyInstaller. The project is not dead - make
> sure you use the latest version in the SVN.
>
> Search stackoverflow.com for positive feedback and tips on PyInstaller.
> Its on our plate to take a good look this product 'one of these days'.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Malcolm

I summarised a all the alternatives to py2exe I could find, here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tZ42hjaRunvkObFq0bKxVdg&output=html

Looking for those with a green 'y' in the 'Windows' row, you want to
check out cx_freeze, PyInstaller, bbfreeze.

Best of luck.



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