Executable program is possible?

[Karl M. Syring]

"Paul Rubin" <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:7xhepf8wyv.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com...
> "Thomas Heller" <thomas.heller at ion-tof.com> writes:
> > > 2) How large is the .exe file typically, if the Python program isn't
> > > large and doesn't use a lot of modules?
> >
> > A trivial "print 'Hello, World'" exe-file is 48 kBytes (plus the
> > pythonxx.dll, which it still needs).
>
> Hmm, can you tell me how big pythonxx.dll is?  Is any other stuff
> needed besides the dll?
>
> I was really hoping for a monolithic .exe that included all necessary
> modules for the application, plus the interpreter, in order to
> absolutely minimize installation hassles for the end user.  I.e. I'd
> like to be able to give my Python app to a non-Python Windows user by
> saying "just download this .exe and run it".  It would be nice if the
> .exe was reasonably small, but the main thing is it shouldn't need any
> technical skill to get it running.
>
> Is there some kind of auto-installer included with py2exe, that can
> unwrap everything and do the necessary installs?  If not, adding one
> would be a big win.

You could use the NSIS installer (http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/). I
think pygame does this, too. Looks quite professional.

Karl M. Syring