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As you may already know - in my free time I use Python to lose this time.
I'm creating small text based games using the same "snake" language and in Windows it was rather easy to make exe files thanks to cx_Freeze. For some strange reason or lazyness I wasn't able to do the same task in Mint. For the moment I'm away from my Linux PC and I can't say what exactly goes wrong (maybe I wasn't able to install cx_Freeze on Mint) but the truth is that I never succeeded.
Any suggestions what can cause this problem?
Thanks in advance.
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var wrote:For Linux and Windows I use PyInstaller. A much better program and it can compile everything into a single executable, I highly recommend it.
There is no such thing in linux. Executable files are set by an executable bit in their permissions, not by the file extension as file extensions really are just a few letters at the end of the name.
You can chmod +x or right click the file and chose to make it an executable, and then at the top of the text of the file add #!/usr/bin/python to tell bash to run the file with python.
scryan wrote:change the extension to .exe
BOOM DONE!
There is no such thing in linux. Executable files are set by an executable bit in their permissions, not by the file extension as file extensions really are just a few letters at the end of the name.
You can chmod +x or right click the file and chose to make it an executable, and then at the top of the text of the file add #!/usr/bin/python to tell bash to run the file with python.
I think he means to make the python script a self-contained executable file. Not an executable python script.
scryan wrote:change the extension to .exe
BOOM DONE!
There is no such thing in linux. Executable files are set by an executable bit in their permissions, not by the file extension as file extensions really are just a few letters at the end of the name.
You can chmod +x or right click the file and chose to make it an executable, and then at the top of the text of the file add #!/usr/bin/python to tell bash to run the file with python.
I think he means to make the python script a self-contained executable file. Not an executable python script.
Big difference.
Would this even be done in linux?
Would any stand alone require a way to interpret python as a dependency.... so basically the same as having python on your system...
You might want to check out python eggs, they are sort of like .jar files for Java. I use setuptools for some of my python projects which allows you to declare stuff like dependencies, entry points for your program, and even to install your scripts.
DrHu wrote:http://www.py2exe.org/
--circa 2008, probably works with your older Python version 2.7x
He is looking for a linux solution for creating exe files...
Though I am not sure if he want to make exe files for windows, since linux doesn't really have exe files, if he means he wants to create stand alone binary image of some kind, or if he just want to be able to click and run....
