On 19 June 2013 12:13, <andrewblun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've seen some information on Blender. Is it possible to have the entire > program contained within a single exe (or exe and some other files) so that > it can be passed around and used by others without having to install blender?
I don't know if Blender would cause problems for that but it's not hard to install Blender generally; apparently there is a portable version that can be simply unzipped on the target computer. More generally, though, there are some legal issues relating to packaging standard MSVC-compiled Python with all of its dependencies in a single .exe file for Windows. The particular problem is the Microsoft C runtime library. py2exe has some information about this here: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial Generally Python is not designed with the intention that applications would be packaged into a standalone executable file although a number of projects exist to make that possible. Is it so hard for your users to install Python and Blender if you tell them which files to download and install? Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list