What is the best approach with compiling PySide application

Question

I have lot of pain while compiling pyside code for Linux...much less for Windows, and my source is around 300kb. I would like to know what is the safest way to compile it.

Answer 1

My only experience is with cx_freeze (using python 3.3). It works in Windows/Linux/OSX. A simple example can be found here (with its documentation): http://cx-freeze.readthedocs.org/en/latest/distutils.html#distutils

Another example:

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

# dependencies
build_exe_options = {
    "packages": ["os", "sys", "glob", "simplejson", "re", "atexit", "PySide.QtCore", "PySide.QtGui", "PySide.QtXml"],
    "include_files": [("./example/Ui/MainWindow.ui", "Ui/MainWindow.ui"),
                      ("./example/Ui/ExampleWidget.ui", "Ui/ExampleWidget.ui"),
                      ("./example/Ui/TestDialog.ui", "Ui/TestDialog.ui"),
                      ("./example/Resources/style.qss", "Ui/style.qss")], # this isn't necessary after all
    "excludes": ["Tkinter", "Tkconstants", "tcl"],
    "build_exe": "build",
    "icon": "./example/Resources/Icons/monitor.ico"
}

executable = [
    Executable("./bin/Example.py",
               base="Win32GUI",
               targetName="Example.exe",
               targetDir="build",
               copyDependentFiles=True)
]

setup(
    name="Example",
    version="0.1",
    description="Example", # Using the word "test" makes the exe to invoke the UAC in win7. WTH?
    author="Me",
    options={"build_exe": build_exe_options},
    executables=executable,
    requires=['PySide', 'cx_Freeze', 'simplejson']
)