"danmcle...@yahoo.com" <danmcle...@yahoo.com> writes: > On Apr 2, 11:23 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, danmcle...@yahoo.com >> >> <danmcle...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > On Apr 1, 5:54 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Krister Svanlund >> >> <krister.svanl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Spencer <infotech...@fairpoint.net> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> Is there a way to developing a script on linux and give it >> >> >> to someone on microsoft, so that they could run it on microsoft >> >> >> without installing python? >> <snip> >> >> one can't generate such a standalone executable for a different >> >> operating system from that which one's computer runs. >> >> > that's not entirely true. i just built a standalone exe for win 7 from >> > my win xp machine. >> >> s/operating system/platform >> >> Good luck getting PyInstaller to output for Windows when being run on >> a *nix box. > > you think virtualbox could help? i wonder if one could run linux/ > py2exe virtually on a win machine and get it working.
Of course that works, a virtual windows machine is just a windows machine ;-). Also that you can't do a "cross compilation" sounds to me more a limitation of the tool than a true impossibility. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
