> On 10 Jul 2018, at 19:12, Alberto Garcia <agarciaill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Barry,
> 
> but I see that the the way yo do it is dropping files to disk. I want to 
> prevent any file to touch the disk except for the actual binary that has 
> everything embedded in it.

What file are you refering to? The zip is built onto the elf/exe.

BTW this is all off topic for python ideas. You might want to take this offline.


Barry

> 
> Cheers
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:25 AM Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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