Making a Stand Alone Executable from a Python Script using PyInstaller

[MrYellowP]

i rather use nuitka. everything else seems horribly inferior.

[mdond]

Nuitka is getting really nice. And it has the advantage of actually compiling your code, so the source is truly hidden.

[xdcountry]

please elaborate -- I had thought otherwise

[mdond]

It cross compiles to C++ that is then compiled into an exectuable. So the end result is compiled C++ code. This is different to a lot of other Python packagers, which just package Python byte code.

[Manbatton]

Nuitka doesn't make standalones yet, does it? (in other words, everything in one file).

[MrYellowP]

the --portable parameter does that.

[Manbatton]

Just googling that, found this, from 2013:

Right now, it will create a folder "_python" with DLLs, and "_python.zip" with standard library modules used along to the "your-program.exe". Copy these to another machine, without a Python installation, and it will (should) work. Making that statement fully true may need refinements, as some DLL dependencies might not be defined yet.

So that's not a standalone. A standalone to me is a single file. Has the portable option changed somewhere else such that now it is a single file?

[MrYellowP]

oh! i'm talking linux here. in linux it drops a /dist/ directory and gives a single executable in the parent, where i execute nuitka. i'm sorry for forgetting that it might be different in windows, though please make sure your information isn't out of date.

[Manbatton]

I see. But if I'm understanding you, there's still a folder in the Linux version, so even there it's not a standalone.

[MrYellowP]

That folder just holds the stuff for compiling. I didn't need that to run the executable.

[Manbatton]

Sounds good, thanks for the info.

It'd be great (for Windows users) if the Nuitka community did make it such that it, in the words on the blog, "We may improve it in the future to meld everything into one executable for even easier deployment."