[ILUG-BOM] py2exe on Linux?

[Chirag Wazir]

Hi,

Satya <ilugbom at thesatya.com> wrote:
> Alright, all you Python people, everywhere I look on Google
> I find that py2exe is being run on Windows. Can I use it on Linux
> (without Wine, VMWare, etc.) and generate Windows executables?

The short answer is no. To some extent this is possible, but there is
currently no tool AFAIK that does a cross-platform build for Python.

You will find the same question discussed on comp.lang.python -
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/
search?q=py2exe+linux

There are instructions to get it done using Wine and the minimal
number of windows DLLs at http://grossac.org/python_eng.html

Without a proper Windows environment, I doubt you'll be able to do
this with a complex project that has many dependencies - especially
GUI libraries etc.

Chirag Wazir
http://chirag.freeshell.org