[PythonCE] py2exe

[Luke Dunstan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Clements" <bkc at murkworks.com>
To: <pythonce at python.org>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [PythonCE] py2exe


> On 1 Jun 2006 at 20:59, ahmad adel rldardiry wrote:
>
>> Could this be done? A py2exe version for pocketpc, that generates an
>> executable that can run on Pocket PC?
>
> py2exe requires ctypes. I think there was some progress getting ctypes to 
> work
> on Windows CE.

Actually I ported ctypes months ago, and since then both Thomas Heller and I 
have released ctypes binaries for versions of PythonCE.

>
> However you'd still need a linker for ARM and pre-made DLLs, plus figure 
> out if
> the .zip'd python scripts can be appended to a Windows CE executable 
> (that's the
> trick py2exe uses to bundle everything up on X86 platforms)

Yes, that may be the tricky part I think, but I have not looked into it.

Luke