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diff --git a/Tools/freeze/README b/Tools/freeze/README index 32c7458..1bc864b 100644 --- a/Tools/freeze/README +++ b/Tools/freeze/README @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ THE FREEZE SCRIPT ================= +(Directions for Windows NT are at the end of this file.) + What is Freeze? --------------- @@ -77,9 +79,6 @@ where hello.py is your program and freeze.py is the main file of 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? ------------------ @@ -105,4 +104,36 @@ proper install, you should do "make install" in the Python root 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/) |