Vincent Delporte wrote: > - py2exe is still the best tool in town to compile Python scripts to > run on a Windows host that doesn't have Python installed, including > wxWidgets/wxPython
Hi Vincent and c.l.p-ers I'm using PyInstaller (http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/) precisely to "compile" a wxPython-based program. So I'm curious about what makes py2exe "the best tool...", because I'm about to miss that due to my ignorance. I learned PyInstaller for something else and laziness kept me from trying py2exe. Now, the blurb on py2exe's site doesn't sound better than what I have with PyInstaller. FWIW, PyInstaller (NB: it's an exe-maker, not an installer) can compress your binaries using UPX, create single file executables and works cross-platforms too. It'll even include w9xpopen.exe and allow custom icons for the executable. It doesn't need setup.py. My "buildtest.bat" is: python Makespec.py -X -F -o ecoz ecotools.py grid.py similarity.py diversity.py python -O Build.py ecoz\ecotools.spec >> pyinstaller_log.txt ecoz\ecotools.exe test I've notice that application start time (or rather, 're-start', as it's more noticeable for the subsequent runs) is much better for the "single directory" method, because single file will always decompress to a temporary directory. All the best, Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list