> On 9 Jul 2018, at 21:11, Alberto Garcia <agarciaill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thank you for your response. I've downloaded the sources but I couldn't find 
> any documentation. In addition I see that there is not a single C/C++ file. 
> What I want to do is calling python from C.
> Am I missing something?

You need to grab the sources with an svn checkout. I guess you grabbed the 
binary kit.

https://sourceforge.net/p/meinc-installer/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/MEINC_Installer/

Docs are in here.

https://sourceforge.net/p/meinc-installer/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/MEINC_Installer/Installer/doc/

Barry

> Cheers
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:20 PM Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>> I think you might find Gordon McMillian's installer interesting to look at. 
>> It has a lot
>> f the tech that I think you are looking for.
>> 
>> Works up to python 2.7. I ended up taking over when Gordon stopped 
>> maintaining
>> it and kept it going up to python 2.7. In principle the same ideas could be 
>> made to
>> work in python 3 I believe.
>> 
>>      https://sourceforge.net/projects/meinc-installer/
>> 
>> The zip file is appended to the end of the .EXE or unix ELF fie.
>> The boot strap knows how to import form the ZIP at the end of
>> the binary.
>> 
>> It also has a way to split out the .SO/.DLL files from the ZIP and
>> allow them to be loaded. Single EXE mode.
>> 
>> There are docs that explain how it works in the sources.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9 Jul 2018, at 19:40, Alberto Garcia <agarciaill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Does the zip need to reside in disk to be loaded. Or can it be loaded from 
>>> memory? I don't want it to be loaded from disk but from Memory
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 9:59 AM Alberto Garcia <agarciaill...@gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Ohhhhhhhh  I guess you mean this:
>>>> https://github.com/anthony-tuininga/cx_Freeze/blob/master/source/bases/Common.c
>>>> 
>>>> Right?
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 9:48 AM Alberto Garcia <agarciaill...@gmail.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Thank you for your response,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was thinking on creating that zip file with the content of the Lib 
>>>>> folder and having my c code to download it over the network and have it 
>>>>> in memory. 
>>>>> I guess that the zip file should have no compression at all right?
>>>>> 
>>>>> When you say that I need to use the cx_freeze approach what do you mean? 
>>>>> Can you point me to where they do that? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> And why changing sys.path again to the executable again? Which part of 
>>>>> the executable? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll put my efforts in this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 7:16 AM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 9 July 2018 at 03:10, Alberto Garcia <agarciaill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hey there,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Yes, the part of having the pyd modules built in in library is already 
>>>>>> > done.
>>>>>> > I followed the instructions in the README. What I would like to know 
>>>>>> > now is
>>>>>> > how to embed the non frozen python (py) modules. Can you guys please 
>>>>>> > point
>>>>>> > me in the right direction.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The gist is to:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1. take the entire Lib directory and put it in a zip archive
>>>>>> 2. use the approach demonstrated in cx_freeze to point sys.path in
>>>>>> your static executable at that zip archive
>>>>>> 3. adjust your C code to point sys.path back at the executable itself,
>>>>>> and then combine your executable and the zip archive into a single
>>>>>> contiguous file (similar to what zipapp does with it's helper script
>>>>>> and app archive)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There are likely to still be rough edges when doing that, since this
>>>>>> isn't a well tested configuration. When all else fails, find the part
>>>>>> of the source code responsible for any error messages you're seeing,
>>>>>> and try to work out if there's a setting you can tweak to avoid
>>>>>> hitting that code path.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Nick.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Nick Coghlan   |   ncogh...@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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