text: bbfreeze 1.1.3
  create standalone executables from python scripts
  Note
  bbfreeze currently does not have a maintainer. If that doesn’t scare you off, read on!
  Overview
  bbfreeze creates stand-alone executables from python scripts. It’s similar in purpose to the well known py2exe for windows, py2app for OS X, PyInstaller and cx_Freeze (in fact ancient versions were based on cx_Freeze. And it uses the modulegraph package, which is also used by py2app).
  It has the following features:
  - easy installation
  - bbfreeze can be installed with setuptools’ easy_install command.
  - zip/egg file import tracking
  - bbfreeze tracks imports from zip files and includes whole egg files if some module is used from an eggfile. Packages using setuputils’ pkg_resources module will now work (new in 0.95.0)
  - binary dependency tracking
  - bbfreeze will track binary dependencies and will include DLLs and shared libraries needed by a frozen program.
  - multiple script freezing
  - bbfreeze can freeze multiple scripts at once.
  - python interpreter included
  - bbfreeze will create an extra executable named ‘py’, which might be used like the python executable itself.
  - automatic pathname rewriting
  - pathnames in tracebacks are replaced with relative pathnames (i.e. if you import package foo.bar from /home/jdoe/pylib/ tracebacks generated from functions in foo.bar will not show your local path /home/jdoe/pylib/foo/bar.py. They will instead show foo/bar.py)
  - distutils command ‘bdist_bbfreeze’
  - A new distutils/setuptools command bdist_bbfreeze integrates bbfreeze into your setup.py.
  bbfreeze works on windows and UNIX-like operating systems. bbfreeze has been tested with python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 bbfreeze will not work with python 3 or higher. bbfreeze does not work on OS X.
  Contact Information
  bbfreeze has been developed by brainbot technologies AG. Questions and suggestions should be send to the bbfreeze-users mailing list: bbfreeze-users@googlegroups.com
  You can subscribe by sending email to bbfreeze-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com
  An archive is available at
  You can also reach the author via email to ralf@systemexit.de
  Source
  Windows Eggs and the source code can be downloaded from.
  The source code is maintained in a git repository on github:
  Use:
  git clone
  to create a copy of the repository, then:
  git pull
  inside the copy to receive the latest version.
  Installation
  You need to have setuptools/easy_install installed. Installation should be as easy as typing:
  easy_install bbfreeze
  This should download bbfreeze and it’s dependencies modulegraph and altgraph and install them.
  Limitations
  - documentation is a bit sparse
  bbfreeze - command line tool
  bbfreeze provides a command line utility called bbfreeze, which freezes all python scripts given on the command line into the directory dist, which then contains for each script an executable and all dependencies needed by those executables.
  Example Usage:
  $ cat hello-world.py #! /usr/bin/env python import sys import email print unicode("hello", "utf8"), unicode("world!", "ascii") print "sys.path:", sys.path print "__file__:", __file__ print "__name__:", __name__ print "locals():", locals() print "sys.argv", sys.argv print "sys.executable:", sys.executable $ bbfreeze hello-world.py WARNING: found encodings in multiple directories. Assuming it's a namespace package. (found in /home/ralf/py27/lib/python2.7/encodings, /usr/lib/python2.7/encodings) *** applied <function recipe_doctest at 0x1f01aa0> *** applied <function recipe_time at 0x1f01de8> *** applied <function recipe_urllib at 0x1f01c08> RPATH ${ORIGIN}:${ORIGIN}/../lib is fine $ dist/hello-world hello world! sys.path: ['/home/ralf/bbfreeze/tests/dist/library.zip', '/home/ralf/bbfreeze/tests/dist'] __file__: hello-world.py __name__: __main__ locals(): {'__builtins__': <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>, '__file__': 'hello-world.py', '__package__': None, 'sys': <module 'sys' (built-in)>, 'email': <module 'email' from '/home/ralf/bbfreeze/tests/dist/library.zip/email/__init__.pyc'>, '__name__': '__main__', '__doc__': None} sys.argv ['/home/ralf/bbfreeze/tests/dist/hello-world'] sys.executable: /home/ralf/bbfreeze/tests/dist/hello-world $ dist/py Python 2.7.2 (default, Nov 21 2011, 17:25:27) [GCC 4.6.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (MyConsole) >>> import email >>>
  bdist_bbfreeze - distutils command
  bbfreeze provides a distutils command which works much like the ‘bbfreeze’ command line tool, but integrates nicely into distutils and setuptools. It collects all ‘console_scripts’ ‘gui_scripts’ entry-points, generates the wrapper scripts (like easy_install would do) and freezes these scripts.
  After installing bbfreeze, every setup.py which used setuptools, has a new command ‘bdist_bbfreeze’. To show the help message just run:
  python setup.py bdist_bbfreeze --help
  Usage examples:
  # freeze all scripts into ./dist/<egg_name>-<egg_version>/ python setup.py bdist_bbfreeze # same, but use tagging for "daily build" or "snapshot" releases python setup.py egg_info --tag-build=dev bdist_bbfreeze
  bbfreeze - API
  The preferred way to use bbfreeze is by writing short python scripts, which use bbfreeze’s API. Let’s start with a short example:
  from bbfreeze import Freezer f = Freezer("hello-world-1.0", includes=("_strptime",)) f.addScript("hello-world.py") f.addScript("hello-version.py") f() # starts the freezing process
  bbfreeze.Freezer(distdir=”dist”, includes=(), excludes=()) instantiates a Freezer object. It will create the frozen executables and dependencies inside the distdir directory. includes is a list or tuple of modules to include, excludes is a list or tuple of modules to exclude. Note that the freezer will delete the directory distdir before freezing!
  bbfreeze.Freezer objects have the following members:
  - use_compression: flag whether to use compression inside the created zipfile (default True).
  - include_py: flag whether to create the included python interpreter py (default True)
  - addScript(path, gui_only=False): register a python script for freezing. path must be the path to a python script. The freezer will scan the file for dependencies and will create an executable with the same name in distdir. The gui_only flag only has a meaning on windows: If set, the executable created for this script will not open a console window.
  Recipes
  Recipes provide a way to control the freezing process. Have a look at bbfreeze/recipes.py if you need to implement your own. Note that the API might change.
  Linux Notes
  The glibc version on the system used for freezing will generally be the minimum glibc version required to run the binaries.
  gtk, gdk, pango, glib shared libraries will not be copied by the freezing process. Those need a rather complicated runtime system and copying them would probably only lead to problems.
  Windows Notes
  binaries created with python 2.6 or 2.7 will need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (either the 32bit or the 64bit version) installed on the target machine.
  Change-Log
  2014-01-20 release 1.1.3
  - Excluding Crypt32.dll
  - Add support for SunOS (tested on SmartOS)
  - Added current python executable path to allow freezing even if python is not installed (portable python, buildout)
  2013-07-17 release 1.1.2
  - fix extension loader on python 2.4
  2013-07-14 release 1.1.1
  - Adding icon for executables on windows. Added SetIcon method to Freezer. Winexeutil uses win32api so pywin32 must be installed to use.
  - unconditionally copy console.exe to dist dir and ensure permissions are usable
  2013-04-10 release 1.1.0
  - bbfreeze has been split into bbfreeze-loader package and a pure python bbfreeze module. this should allow me to make more regular releases.
  - add recipe for lxml.etree
  - don’t pollute module namespace while importing
  - don’t pollute the modules namespace in EXTENSION_LOADER_SOURCE
  - make sure we use absolute imports in EXTENSION_LOADER_SOURCE
  - do not pick up bbfreeze/__main__.py when freezing bbfreeze/py.py
  - fix ‘googlegroup subscribe’ address
  - fix bdist_egg procedure when setuptools is not importable
  - fix the bdist_egg procedure when running under buildout
  - normalize package names in ‘dont_copy_as_egg’
  - only execute entry point scripts when called as __main__
  - use a project specific name for egg-info directories
  - don’t install PyXML as egg since it won’t work
  - add addEntryPoint method
  - copy egg-info directories
  - rename bb-freeze to bbfreeze
  - rely on setuptools/distribute being installed
  - shorten and simplify extension loader
  - use absolute imports in the extension loader to load stdlib modules
  2012-10-23 release 1.0.2
  - use altgraph 0.9 as 0.10 is incompatible
  2012-09-27 release 1.0.1
  - update links to alternative freezers
  - skip libresolv.so, which is a part of glibc
  - call patchelf for anything which looks like a binary
  2012-02-08 release 1.0.0
  - better test infrastructure
  - update documentation
  - remove bbfreeze.macholib
  - fix build on ubuntu 11.10
  - handle platform==’linux3’ case in ensureRPath
  - make py recipe work again.
  - handle “pip -e” installed development eggs, that aren’t even setuptools packages
  2011-04-12 release 0.97.3
  -
  2010-10-12 release 0.97.2
  - workaround console.exe not being executable.
  - switch to ez_setup.py from setuptools-0.6c11.
  - make win32com work by using a temporary directory as it’s __gen_path__.
  2010-08-19 release 0.97.1
  - add missing README.rst file.
  2010-08-17 release 0.97.0
  - make it compatible with latest altgraph
  - add recipe for gevent
  - fix build on latest ubuntu
  2008-09-18 release 0.96.5
  - added distutils command ‘bdist_bbfreeze’ contributed by Hartmut Goebel
  - executables are now stripped with the ‘strip’ command. This makes a difference in file size when using a static libpython.a.
  2008-8-29 release 0.96.4
  - record previously missing dependencies for subpackage imports. This bug only showed up when dependencies where explicitly removed.
  2008-8-18 release 0.96.3
  - fix issues with some packages, which where wrongly recognized as development eggs
  2008-8-5 release 0.96.2
  - a slightly patched getpath.c from python trunk has been added. This should fix sys.getfilesystemencoding() for statically linked python. We also try to link with the static library in case the shared one has been linked with -Bsymbolic (which makes it impossible to override the necessary symbols). This happens e.g. on Ubuntu 8.04.
  - __file__ in the main program now has a .py suffix. This prevents garbage output from the warnings module.
  - some recipes have been added (mostly breaking some unneeded dependencies).
  - explicit recipes for the email module have been added. the email module isn’t added as a whole.
  - the setup script now reports the configuration used.
  - bbfreeze now tracks dependencies from eggs (i.e. dependencies specified in the egg’s setup.py script).
  2008-3-14 release 0.96.1
  - fix bug in an internal function, which determines if eggs should be used. It always returned False, so eggs where never packaged.
  2008-3-13 release 0.96.0
  - some egg packages have the site-packages directory as their location, which resulted in the whole site-packages directory being copied as some egg file.
  - fix issue with wxPython
  - add recipe for mercurial
  - handle development eggs (“python setup.py develop”) by running setup.py bdist_egg
  - handle easy install entry scripts
  - add recipe for kinterbasdb (thanks to Werner F. Bruhin)
  - fix LD_RUN_PATH issue, when –enable–new-dtags is the default for linking (e.g. on gentoo). (thanks to Collin Day)
  2007-12-6 release 0.95.4
  - workaround for virtualenv
  - show execution time in py
  2007-10-16 release 0.95.3
  - recipes for pythoncom/pywintypes have been added
  - make sys.getfilesystemencoding() work like in non-frozen versions
  - automatic pathname rewriting
  - make stdin, stdout and stderr unbuffered in frozen programs
  2007-7-12 release 0.95.2
  - fix issues with c modules with suffix ‘module.so’, e.g. zlibmodule.so, timemodule.so, … (fedora core 7 uses that naming scheme; thanks to Neil Becker for reporting) The frozen executable did bail out with zipimport.ZipImportError: can’t decompress data; zlib not available”.
  2007-7-11 release 0.95.1
  - compile .py files from eggs when there is no accompanying .pyc file
  - skip egg/zip files in find_all_packages (makes some recipes work)
  2007-7-6 release 0.95.0
  - support for egg files: bbfreeze scans zipped egg files and now includes whole egg files/directories in the distribution. Programs using setuptools’ pkg_resources module will now work (thanks to Eirik Svendsen for testing this).
  2007-6-28 release 0.94.1
  - fix bug in setup script, now the patched modulegraph is really used
  - better recipe handling
  2007-6-22 release 0.94.0
  - support relative imports (backported from modulefinder, bbfreeze now ships with its’ own patched copy of modulegraph).
  - fix xml/_xmlplus issues
  - add recipe for cElementTree
  2007-5-31 release 0.93.2
  - include tcl/tk runtime files (really makes Tkinter work)
  - exclude gtk, pango and friends (i.e. they must be installed on the target system)
  2007-5-14 release 0.93.1
  - make py executable work when readline is not installed
  - fix dll search path issue (makes Tkinter work)
  2007-5-3 release 0.93.0
  - dependency on libpython.so should now always be recognized
  - support for namespace packages
  - basic support for zipfiles/eggs (bbfreeze will scan zipfiles/eggs for dependencies and will implement a dummy pkg_resources.require in frozen executables). Note that the remaining pkg_resources functionality just isn’t available.
  - documentation updates
  2007-4-27 release 0.92.0
  - better binary dependency cache handling
  - fix recipe for time module on windows
  - use pefile module on windows for binary dependency tracking
  - add gui_only flag to addScript method (which builds GUI programs on windows, i.e. without console)
  - strip shared libraries on non windows platforms
  - add showxref method
  - working recipe for py.magic.greenlet
  2007-4-24 Initial release 0.91.0
  LICENSE
  bbfreeze contains a modified copy of modulegraph, which is distributed under the MIT license and is copyrighted by Bob Ippolito.
  bbfreeze contains a modified copy of getpath.c from the python distribution, which is distributed under the python software foundation license version 2 and copyrighted by the python software foundation.
  bbfreeze includes a module ‘bdist_bbfreeze.py’ which is
  The ‘bdist_bbfreeze’ module may be distributed under the same licence as bbfreeze itself..
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