def MakeExecutableTemplate(self, output_file=None):
    """Create the executable template.

    The client is built in two phases. First an executable template is created
    with the client binaries contained inside a zip file. Then the installation
    package is created by appending the SFX extractor to this template and
    writing a config file into the zip file.  This technique allows the
    client build to be carried out once on the supported platform (e.g.
    windows with MSVS), but the deployable installer can be build on any
    platform which supports python.  Subclasses for each OS do the actual
    work, we just make sure the output directory is set up correctly here.

    Args:
      output_file: string filename where we will write the template.
    """
    self.template_file = output_file or config.CONFIG.Get(
        "ClientBuilder.template_path", context=self.context)
    utils.EnsureDirExists(os.path.dirname(self.template_file))
Create the executable template.

    The client is built in two phases. First an executable template is created
    with the client binaries contained inside a zip file. Then the installation
    package is created by appending the SFX extractor to this template and
    writing a config file into the zip file.  This technique allows the
    client build to be carried out once on the supported platform (e.g.
    windows with MSVS), but the deployable installer can be build on any
    platform which supports python.  Subclasses for each OS do the actual
    work, we just make sure the output directory is set up correctly here.

    Args:
      output_file: string filename where we will write the template.