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Reputation: 4049

Creating binary from python scripts with pyinstaller for as many Linux distributions as possible

Today I came a cross an issue with a binary I created from some python scripts using pyinstaller. I created the binary on fc17 but when I tried to run it on fc18 I got an error which was related to a difference in the openssl version on fc17 (1.0.0k) and fc18 (1.0.1e). This raises serious doubts about my ability to use pyinstaller since I don't know in advance on which Linux distributions my binary will end up. I'm willing to build the binary once every time I make a change in the python scripts but I can not afford having every possible Linux distribution and building the binary on every one of them. Is there a recipe to handle the variety of Linux distributions when building an application with pyinstaller?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 887

Answers (1)

Foo Bar User
Foo Bar User

Reputation: 2491

i think what you are looking for is cx_freeze

cx_Freeze is a set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables, in much the same way that py2exe and py2app do. Unlike these two tools, cx_Freeze is cross platform and should work on any platform that Python itself works on. It supports Python 2.3 or higher (including Python 3), since it makes use of the zip import facility which was introduced in 2.3.

Upvotes: 1

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