[python-win32] Creating a self-contained MSI or self-extracting installation executable

[Sriram Karra]

Hm, ok. I think I will just go with py2exe and NSIS.

Thanks
Sriram

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Nivth Ket <nivthk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shiram Karra, I am in no way experienced, but I do believe that pywin32
> would not help with the first or second. In my opinion and experience, the
> easiest way to make the exe would be py2exe, and you should look to NSIS
> for making your installeer, as NSIS is fairly easy to use.
> Hoping I helped, Ninth.
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Sriram Karra <karra.etc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am working on a web application based on tornado and sqlalchemy that I
>> want to distribute to Windows users so they can install and uninstall with
>> zero pain  and execute the program without needing to install anything else
>> (including python or pywin32). After a bit of research it appears like
>> there would be 2 distinct and perhaps totally unrelated parts of the
>> problem:
>>
>> 1. Using something like py2exe or pyinstaller to create a standalone
>> executable
>> 2. Bundling it into a MSI or EXE - perhaps with the help of pywin32
>>
>> Now my questions:
>>
>> First, is it correct that pywin32 has nothing to offer for Step 1?
>>
>> Second, is it correct that I could, theoretically use pywin32 fo Step 2?
>> If yes, where should I start?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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