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THE FREEZE SCRIPT
=================
(Directions for Windows NT are at the end of this file.)
What is Freeze?
---------------
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Freeze (in actuality, you'll probably specify an absolute pathname
such as /usr/joe/python/Tools/freeze/freeze.py).
(With Python 1.4, freeze is much more likely to work "out of the box"
than before, provided Python has been installed properly.)
What do I do next?
------------------
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directory.
Usage under Windows NT
----------------------
Under Windows NT, you *must* use the -p option and point it to the top
of the Python source tree.
WARNING: the resulting executable is not self-contained; it requires
the Python DLL, currently PYTHON15.DLL (it does not require the
standard library of .py files though).
The driver script generates a Makefile that works with the Microsoft
command line C compiler (CL). To compile, run "nmake"; this will
build a target "hello.exe" if the source was "hello.py". Only the
files frozenmain.c and frozen.c are used; no config.c is generated or
used, since the standard DLL is used.
In order for this to work, you must have built Python using the VC++
(Developer Studio) 5.0 compiler. The provided project builds
python15.lib in the subdirectory pcbuild\Release of thje Python source
tree, and this is where the generated Makefile expects it to be. If
this is not the case, you can edit the Makefile or (probably better)
winmakemakefile.py (e.g., if you are using the 4.2 compiler, the
python15.lib file is generated in the subdirectory vc40 of the Python
source tree).
Freezing pure GUI applications has not yet been tried; there's a new
-s option to specify the subsystem, but only the default ('console')
has been tested. Freezing applications using Tkinter works; note that
these will require that that _tkinter.dll is available and the right
version of Tcl/Tk (the one that was used to build _tkinter.dll) is
installed.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)