Also see Facebook’s XAR: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
PyOxidizer offers a solution that:
- works on Windows
- can produce executable for Windows, Mac and Linux, but also potentially cross compile from any of those in the future
- results in a stand alone executable, not some filesystem abstraction
- as such, the target machine doesn't need to have anything installed
- it also offers to embed Python into Rust projects, and Rust into Python projects
A better alternative would be the excellent nuitka (nuitka.net):
- it compiles Python to C
- it's very compatible, very reliable (I battle tested it)
- works better than the alternatives like py2exe, cx_freeze, etc
- does provide a standalone executable
- more mature that both of these projects
But:
- no cross compilation
- no rust / python interoperability
- more complicated to get working on windows
So I'm really excited for PyOxidizer. It may make the task of providing a stand alone executable even easier than with nuitka, and as a bonus, may build a bridge between the Python and Rust community, which really are meant to play together.
that would be very helpful, I use Linux and to be able to provide executables for Windows/macOS would be nice