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Re:Drawbacks of Python by dec0dedab0de on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:25AM (#20951793)
if you just want to make a self contained executable for windows users I've used py2exe a few times and it always works well. It's basically one command and it gives you an exe of your .py file

https://pypi.org/project/py2exe/

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Re:Drawbacks of Python by metroholografix on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:12PM (#20966630)
py2exe and anything else that uses Joachim Bauch's memory loader is loading DLLs in a broken fashion that is bound to bite you sooner or later, assuming it works in the first place.

Reimplementing - in a buggy incompatible way - the Windows loader (which is what that code is doing) from scratch, is a gross hack and should not be used to build anything that's meant to be reliable.

Note that pyinstaller and cx_freeze do not suffer from these issues. Do not use py2exe.

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