Thanks, I'll keep cx/bb-Freeze in mind if pyinstaller doesn't work out. I did get some tips from one of our internal guys; they had built a project successfully with Twisted & pyinstaller some time back. I'm trying to figure out the details of what went on there. Seems that they made an <appname>.py which imported Twisted's UnixApplicationRunner() which then imported what had been the .tac file (renamed to <appname>tac.py) to launch the server. Still working out the details, imports, etc., but appears that <appname>.py took over much of the functionality that twistd was providing and made it into more of a straightforward python app. We'll see how this goes.<br>
Ken<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Paul Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spongelavapaul@googlemail.com">spongelavapaul@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
On 5 Jan 2010, at 20:48, Ken MacDonald wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi, we're trying to using pyinstaller to create single-directory<br>
> distributions of our Twisted/python server on Linux. Wondering if<br>
> anyone has accomplished this? I googled and checked the archives,<br>
> but there seems to be no concrete information available.<br>
<br>
</div>Sorry to be negative, but I've not managed to get pyinstaller working<br>
with twisted.<br>
<br>
The reason I'm posting is that I have managed to get bbfreeze and<br>
cx_freeze working. This is all about 6 months old, so newer versions<br>
might be different, but to summarise:<br>
<br>
cx_Freeze put everything into an executable zip file so you are left<br>
with one main binary and a handful of .so objects for python C modules<br>
(unless you patch the Python build to build static). I had to switch<br>
to bbfreeze because I needed to use Nevow and there were too many<br>
hoops to jump through to make it work with the data files accessed<br>
relative to __file__.<br>
<br>
bbfreeze works with eggs, so it works with Nevow or anything else that<br>
uses data files, but the down side is that the result isn't zipped up<br>
into one executable.<br>
<br>
I'm about to reopen the whole freezing thing for a new project, so I<br>
may be able to report back in a few weeks.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
><br>
> I'm real new to pyinstaller and not really familiar with twisted<br>
> internals, so not sure where to start with this, particularly<br>
> whether to package our_server.tac, or the twistd script, or the<br>
> our_server.py as the starting point to bundle all of this stuff<br>
> together. If anyone's done this successfully, or failed miserably,<br>
> would be interested in getting details.<br>
<br>
</div>I dropped the tac file to make it easier to specify the entrypoint. To<br>
do this while still getting all the twistd goodness requires some<br>
hacking, but it isn't really necessary. You can use the tac file<br>
(better to change the extension to .py though) and put a few imports<br>
in the file that are only there to pull in dependencies that the<br>
freezing program can't find. It's basically an iterative thing - build<br>
it, note the missing dependencies, import them, repeat.<br>
<br>
Good luck.<br>
<br>
<br>
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