On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:00:34 PM UTC-4, rtem...@gmail.com wrote: > > What I meant to ask is whether Julia code written with a pycall dependency > could at some point be compiled and distributed self contained. >
Yes, I believe so. For example, you could use PyInstaller (http://www.pyinstaller.org/) to create a self-contained directory that has libpython and all dependencies of the Python code you want to use, and ship this along with your Julia executable. However, I haven't actually tried this, and there is probably some exploration required to figure out the right recipe in PyInstaller. In general, easily distributing self-contained Julia-based executables has not been a priority project, although it will almost certainly happen within the next couple of years (the pieces are pretty much all there, but some manual labor is required to put them together at the moment).
