Problem with freeze.py in ActivePython 2.0

[Are Magnus Bruaset]

Thanks Mick,

I'm sorry I didn't tell what freeze.py is about. It's a part of Python
that will "freeze" a Python script (hello.py in the example below) to a
binary executable (hello.exe on Win32). From the Readme file in the
Python20\Tools\freeze directory it should work on Windows provided the
-p option is used to set the root of the Python installation. We have
successfully frozen our python scripts on 8 different Unix platforms
(part of a new software distribution from our company), but I have
failed to get it working on Windows.

Any advice on this matter is greatly appreciated. Please copy any
answers to amb at nobjects.com as I'm not a regular reader of the list.

Trent Mick wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:13:56PM +0100, Are Magnus Bruaset wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't get freeze.py to behave under ActivePython 2.0 (Windows NT 4.0).
> > The command
> >
> >    python freeze.py -p E:\Python20 hello.py
> >
> > issued in E:\Python20\Tools\freeze (E:\Python20 is the root my
> > installation) leads to the error message
> >
> > Error: needed directory E:\Python20\lib\python2.0\config not found
> 
> I am not familiar with freeze.py but it looks to me like it is expecting a
> *Linux* installation directory structure. Perhaps freeze.py only works on
> Linux, or perhaps there is a command line option to signify window (though I
> don't know why it would require that).
> 
> The <sys.prefix>/lib/python2.0/config is the path to the directory containing
> the Python 2.0 library (i.e. the Linux equiv of the python20.lib file) on a
> Linux installation.
> 
> Trent
> 
> --
> Trent Mick
> TrentM at ActiveState.com

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