[Scons-users] Single binary SCons and byte-code caching

[Eric Fahlgren]

On 3/10/22 19:31, Brad Kraemer wrote:

> > Hi Fellows,
> >
> > That makes sense. I don't currently have a need for an installer or
> > self-contained binary (just a nice warm-fuzzy feeling thought about it).
> > Judging from your response's though, it sounds like it would be a
> > non-trivial amount of experimenting to get it to work (with all the
> > potential corner-cases and whatnot). If I find myself in need of another
> > side-project though I might do some experimenting and get back to you
> > about any positive results.
>

My experience has been that SCons and any "freeze" programs (of which Mats
mentions several) are complementary.  We used SCons to build our runtime
artifacts, including Python, Cython, C/C++ extension modules and so on,
then as its next step, invoke PyInstaller (py2exe before it died, played
with cx-Freeze a bit) to package the application exe, dlls and resources in
a distributable form.  (And subsequent to that, SCons runs NSIS or
InnoSetup or MSI to package those resources into a single file installer.)
This was all for Windows customers, but one of the attractions of
PyInstaller was its cross platform support.

I always treated SCons as the supervisor, and PyInstaller as just another
fancy compiler or linker for it to supervise.
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