Re: [pygame] Distributing a Pygame game on Linux

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Subject: Re: [pygame] Distributing a Pygame game on Linux

From: Thomas Kluyver <takowl@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 23:21:26 +0100

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On 12 May 2013 19:24, Kevin Locoh <rayman3640@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been wondering how to best distribute a game made with Pygame on Linux. On Windows, cx_Freeze works very well, and I assume it would be just the same on Mac OS. But on Linux, it's perfectly useless because of the various distros I'd have to build the game for.

I'm a contributor to cx_Freeze, and I'm curious why it doesn't work for you. You should be able to create a tarball that includes all of the required libraries. Distros prefer all the dependencies packaged separately, but if you want to distribute it yourself, making one big package should work.

cx_Freeze does roughly the same job as PyInstaller, but it's compatible with Python 3 (and PyInstaller isn't, last time I checked).

Thomas