To follow up on pauxu’s answer, I’m using launch4j and NSIS on a project of mine and thought it would be helpful to show just how I’m using them. Here’s what I’m doing for Windows. BTW, I’m creating .app and .dmg for Mac, but haven’t figured out what to do for Linux yet. Project Copies … Read more
Starting from 18.0 release of setuptools (released on 2015-06-23) it is possible to specify Cython in setup_requires and pass *.pyx modules sources for regular setuptools.Extension: from setuptools import setup, Extension setup( # … setup_requires=[ # Setuptools 18.0 properly handles Cython extensions. ‘setuptools>=18.0’, ‘cython’, ], ext_modules=[ Extension( ‘mylib’, sources=[‘src/mylib.pyx’], ), ], )
General MS guidelines no no no GAC is really a repository for Microsoft common .NET libraries. Yes, they let developers use it too, but as a rule of thumb, if you don’t need GAC, don’t use it. keep things simple and local if it doesn’t hurt. I would consider GAC only for performance reasons, for … Read more
Try to use Avian and ProGuard toolkits. Avian allows to embed lightweight virtual machine in you app. Linux, MacOS, Windows and iOS are supported. And ProGuard allows you to shrink large jar file to prepare to embed.
PyInstaller will create a single-file executable if you use the –onefile option (though what it actually does is extracts then runs itself). There’s a simple PyInstaller tutorial here. If you have any questions about using it, please post them…
There are many, many, many protections available. The key is: Assessing your target audience, and what they’re willing to put up with Understanding your audience’s desire to play with no pay Assessing the amount someone is willing to put forth to break your protection Applying just enough protection to prevent most people from avoiding payment, … Read more
There are a variety of solutions, depending on your distribution requirements. Just use a jar. This assumes that the user has the the correct java version installed, otherwise the user will get “class-file format version” exceptions. This is fine for internal distribution inside a company. Use launch4j and an installer like NSIS. This gives you … Read more
Note: The solution below only works when installing a source distribution zip or tarball, or installing in editable mode from a source tree. It will not work when installing from a binary wheel (.whl) This solution is more transparent: You will make a few additions to setup.py and there is no need for an extra … Read more
Here are some common ones. I’ve included only projects that are being actively maintained as of my last edit (July 2021). Unless otherwise noted, all programs listed below will produce an exe specifically for the operating system it’s running in. So for example, running Pyinstaller in Windows will produce a Windows exe, but running Pyinstaller … Read more