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user2015601
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Reputation:

Binaries I created with pyinstaller are incompatible with linux

I used the recent version pyinstaller with the option --onefile to create one stand alone file of my python script. On my Mac it works just fine if I open the file in the terminal (bash shell), but in the Linux bash I get the following error

bash: ./myprog: cannot execute binary file

Is there something I am missing here?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5954

Answers (2)

Henry Keiter
Henry Keiter

Reputation: 17188

pyinstaller creates an executable that will work on the machine it is run on. So if you run pyinstaller on Windows, it creates an executable for Windows. Same for Mac, Linux, etc, so I'd try running pyinstaller on your Linux box to produce a working executable for that environment. Mac executables are not Linux executables.

This is because (as I understand it) the underlying Python includes platform-specific implementations of certain things. For instance, the os module has a bunch of conditional, platform-dependent imports that will be bundled into the executable. Since it only has access to whatever binaries are available on the platform pyinstaller is running on, it can't produce a version for other platforms.

Upvotes: 7

Jalal Hajigholamali
Jalal Hajigholamali

Reputation: 379

Linux checks magic number of executable file, magic number of a Linux executable file starts with "DLE elf"

execute "od -c YUPUR_FILE" and see result

Upvotes: 0

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