Build EXE on Mac OsX 10.4

Paul McNett p at ulmcnett.com
Wed Jun 13 16:35:19 EDT 2007


Tempo wrote:
> Has anyone sucesfully built a *.exe file on a mac operating system
> before from a *.py file? I have been trying to do this with
> pyinstaller, but I keep getting errors and I don't know how to install
> UPX properly. I tried putting the linux UPX folder in my python 2.4
> directory, but that didn't work. I am just generally confused right
> now. Ha. If anybody can lend me some insight I would really appreciate
> it. Thank you for taking the time to read this post.

You need to build Mac Apps on Mac, Windows EXE's on Windows, and Linux 
ELF's on Linux. You can't build a windows.exe from Mac, just as you 
can't build a mac.app from Windows.

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