[Python-ideas] Calling python from C completely statically

[Nick Coghlan]

On 9 July 2018 at 03:10, Alberto Garcia <agarciaillera at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Yes, the part of having the pyd modules built in in library is already done.
> I followed the instructions in the README. What I would like to know now is
> how to embed the non frozen python (py) modules. Can you guys please point
> me in the right direction.

The gist is to:

1. take the entire Lib directory and put it in a zip archive
2. use the approach demonstrated in cx_freeze to point sys.path in
your static executable at that zip archive
3. adjust your C code to point sys.path back at the executable itself,
and then combine your executable and the zip archive into a single
contiguous file (similar to what zipapp does with it's helper script
and app archive)

There are likely to still be rough edges when doing that, since this
isn't a well tested configuration. When all else fails, find the part
of the source code responsible for any error messages you're seeing,
and try to work out if there's a setting you can tweak to avoid
hitting that code path.

Cheers,
Nick.

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