Compiling wxPython app for Windows; Single EXE

ajaksu ajaksu at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 08:45:39 EDT 2006


GHUM wrote:
> and with py2exe:
> Changes in 0.6.1:
>
>     * py2exe can now bundle binary extensions and dlls into the
>       library-archive or the executable itself.  This allows to
>       finally build real single-file executables.
>
>       The bundled dlls and pyds are loaded at runtime by some special
>       code that emulates the Windows LoadLibrary function - they are
>       never unpacked to the file system.
>
> this "they are never unpacked to the file system" is the USP of py2exe
> to me at the moment.

Thank you very much, Harald, this is very important. As I mentioned,
PyInstaller single file has a bad start up time... your information is
enough for me to dive in py2exe for good :)

Biased or not, you may have performed one more conversion ;)
Daniel




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