smith325 / pyinstaller

PyInstaller official GIT repository

PyInstaller

Official website: http://www.pyinstaller.org

Requirements

• Python:

  • 2.4 - 2.7 (Python 3 is not supported)

• Windows (32bit/64bit):

  • Windows XP or newer.
  • pywin32 when using Python 2.6+

• Linux (32bit/64bit)

  • ldd: console application to print the shared libraries required by each program or shared library.
  • objdump: Console application to display information from object files.

• Mac OS X (32/64bit):

  • Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or newer (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion).

• Solaris (experimental)

  • ldd
  • objdump

• AIX (experimental)

  • AIX 6.1 or newer. Python executables created using PyInstaller on AIX 6.1 should work on AIX 5.2/5.3. PyInstaller will not work with statically linked Python libraries which has been encountered in Python 2.2 installations on AIX 5.x.
  • ldd
  • objdump

• FreeBSD (experimental)

  • ldd

  • objdump

  • Build your own loader:

    cd bootloader; python waf configure build install

Usage

pyinstaller /path/to/yourscript.py

or the following when using PyInstaller without installation:

python pyinstaller.py /path/to/yourscript.py

For more details, see the doc/Manual.html.

Installation in brief

1. Unpack the archive on you path of choice.

2. For Windows (32/64bit), Linux (32/64bit) and Mac OS X (32/64bit) precompiled boot-loaders are available. So to install PyInstaller:

   python setup.py install
   

For other platforms, users should first try to build the boot-loader before installation:

cd bootloader
python ./waf configure build install

Major changes in this release

See doc/CHANGES.txt.