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  • Gabriel Rossetti
    #1

    crossplatform standalone python apps

    Hello everyone,

    I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
    Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
    everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
    it and runs it. Has anyone ever done anything like that? I searched
    google but didn't find anything really, and currently, even in my dev
    env, I have to set the PYTHONPATH manually, and for a standalone app I
    couldn't do that for example.

    Thank you,
    Gabriel
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    • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=
      #2
      Re: crossplatform standalone python apps

      I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
      Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
      everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
      it and runs it.
      I don't think this can possibly work. If the zipfile contains the Python
      interpreter, it can't possibly work on all platforms - the Python
      interpreter is run as native machine code of the respective CPU.

      So either you drop the requirement that the zipfile must be
      cross-platform, or you drop the requirement that the Python interpreter
      is included in the zipfile.

      Notice that Mac OS *.app dirs are *not* cross-platform, either - they
      only work on Mac OS.

      Regards,
      Martin

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        • Gabriel Rossetti
          #3
          Re: crossplatform standalone python apps

          Martin v. Löwis wrote:
          >I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
          >Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
          >everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
          >it and runs it.
          >>
          >
          I don't think this can possibly work. If the zipfile contains the Python
          interpreter, it can't possibly work on all platforms - the Python
          interpreter is run as native machine code of the respective CPU.
          >
          yes, I know that :-), I ment everything that can be, my problem is more
          with PYTHONPATH and stuff like that.
          So either you drop the requirement that the zipfile must be
          cross-platform, or you drop the requirement that the Python interpreter
          is included in the zipfile.
          >
          Notice that Mac OS *.app dirs are *not* cross-platform, either - they
          only work on Mac OS.
          >
          Yes, I also know that, I was giving them as an example of how I'd like
          it to work (out of the box)
          Regards,
          Martin
          >
          Regards,
          Gabriel

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            • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=
              #4
              Re: crossplatform standalone python apps

              yes, I know that :-), I ment everything that can be, my problem is more
              with PYTHONPATH and stuff like that.
              Then I don't understand what you meant. What is it (specifically!) that
              you do, what happens, what do you want to happen instead?

              Regards,
              Martin

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                • Mike Driscoll
                  #5
                  Re: crossplatform standalone python apps

                  On Oct 17, 1:59 am, Gabriel Rossetti <gabriel.rosse. ..@arimaz.com>
                  wrote:
                  Hello everyone,
                  >
                  I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application, like
                  Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file containing
                  everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a user just unzips
                  it and runs it. Has anyone ever done anything like that? I searched
                  google but didn't find anything really, and currently, even in my dev
                  env, I have to set the PYTHONPATH manually, and for a standalone app I
                  couldn't do that for example.
                  >
                  Thank you,
                  Gabriel
                  Use GUI2Exe. It can create frozen distributions for Mac, Windows and
                  Linux using py2exe, py2app, cxFreeze, etc.

                  Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/

                  You will (of course) need to have py2exe et al installed if you want
                  GUI2Exe to interface with them.

                  Mike

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