Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer

Re:Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer by science404 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:19AM (#20282902)

Is PyOxidizer going to make it any harder to 'decompile' one of these Python executables? Of course, once you have the bytecode it's easy to recover the source code, but I wonder if something could be built into this tool to make it ever-so-slightly more difficult.

Nuitka has the potential to solve this issue, but it seems not ready yet.

Anyone know if/how Dropbox does it?

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Re:Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer by c8g on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:00AM (#20283119)

Dropbox uses a modified python interpreter

https://github.com/anvilventures/lookinsidethebox

https://anvilventures.com/blog/looking-inside-the-box.html

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Re:Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer by sametmax on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:39AM (#20283012)

Nuitka can do that. Since it converts python to c, then compile the c code, you can just get the c, and compile it the way you want.

PyOxider packages and accesses the python files I think, so they are here and available.

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Re:Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer by pjc50 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:59AM (#20283426)

Just run the executable it produces through your favourite executable pack/obfuscate program. Either way it's only a delaying tactic.

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