Something great
Within samples/extending, Thomas Heller gives a Py2Exe setup.py script which automagically calls InnoSetup to create a great looking (and perfectly working) Windows-Installer. Yes, really, ONE setup.exe is created which contains ALL stuff to have a readily installable Software out of your product.
also large
I program using wxPython. A great library, a large library.
2.240.512 wxc.pyd 3.416.064 wxmsw24uh.dll
Two modules you cannnot skip. In addition there is as allways
974.915 python23.dll
giving more than 6 Megabytes with no line of code written
In total:
28 Datei(en) 9.549.525 Bytes (in lib)
and
2 Datei(en) 1.011.779 Bytes (in prog)
summing up to 10.5 Megabyte ... not much with DSL, but... shocking, isn't it?
get it smaller
In the standard configuration InnoSetup compressed it down to around 6.5 Megabyte.
I changed the setup.py to contain
... the special line is
1 print >> ofi, r"Compression=bzip"
the result
4.335.283 setup.exe
Quite an OK download ... and I use ZODB and Elementtree and pythoncom and and and....
Remarks
I (MGr) get for my application (which uses wxWindows) even smaller files when using 7-zip instead of bzip. To use 7-zip one has to specify "Compression=none" in the generated installer script (*.iss) and then manually load the script into ISTool, which is a front end to Inno Setup. Clicking at the 'Options' button and selecting '7-zip' in the compression combo box does the trick.
7.208 kB uncompressed 2.886 kB zip 2.677 kB bzip 2.160 kB 7-zip
The previous comparison shows, that 7-zip results by far in the smallest installer size. An additional benefit of using 7-zip is the fast installation. When using bzip, the files are decompressed in the last step of the installation process, right then when the files are written to the program folder. Since bzip is computationally quite intensive, the progress bar fills not extremely fast. When using 7-zip, there is a short decompression when starting the installer, but the installation process afterwards it fast as lightning, because of "Compression=none"
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Addition:
Innosetup 4.2 has 7z "LZMA" compression included. Just use
1 print >> ofi, r"Compression=lzma/max"
HAM2005-05-20
7ZIP and UPX
Repacking the "library.zip" with 7-ZIP saving 357KB (577KB original to 220KB 7ZIP compressed). Note: it requires "import zlib" in your source file to allow unzipping operations.
Using UPX the executable packer to compress *.pyd, *.dll and *.exe Files:
Example: _sre.pyd, _winreg.pyd, python23.dll, unicodedata.pyd, w9xpopen.exe, zlib.pyd 1516,2KB original to 584KB compressed)
Everything together: Original Size: 2093,2 compressed: 804KB !!!
A short Windows Batch-File to automate (see WinBatch):
7z.exe -aoa x library.zip -olibrary\ del library.zip cd library\ 7z.exe a -tzip -mx9 ..\library.zip -r cd.. rd library /s /q upx.exe --best *.*
Automatically UPXing extension modules/dlls
While converting over from prior use of the Installer package, I missed its ability to automatically UPX binary modules as they were included in the distribution. So this example creates a custom command class based on py2exe that performs the UPX as part of the file copy process into the distribution directory. The one difference compared to Installer is that it doesn't currently keep a cache of UPXed files, although it could easily enough be extended to do that.
Note that as designed I believe it will UPX any dll/pyd file copied over, even if they are part of the data files for the application. But since anything packaged up with py2exe is going to be running independently and unlikely to need to share any DLLs with other applications, there's little harm in UPXing anything in sight.
The class below is a portion of a py2exe-subclass command class that I use that does the following, based on a new "upx" configuration value:
- Compress (using upx) any dll or pyd file that is copied into the distribution directory. Since it does this at copy time, you only take the hit of upx whenever the file is updated (or you clean out the dist directory).
- Deals with the fact that you have to postpone UPXing the main python##.dll file until py2exe has a chance to fix it's version identification, and that you shouldn't re-patch the file once it's been UPXed.
This command class was written with py2exe 0.5.4.
from distutils.core import setup
from py2exe.build_exe import py2exe
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Define our own command class based on py2exe so we can perform some
# customizations, and in particular support UPXing the binary files.
#
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
class Py2exe(py2exe):
def initialize_options(self):
# Add a new "upx" option for compression with upx
py2exe.initialize_options(self)
self.upx = 0
def copy_file(self, *args, **kwargs):
# Override to UPX copied binaries.
(fname, copied) = result = py2exe.copy_file(self, *args, **kwargs)
basename = os.path.basename(fname)
if (copied and self.upx and
(basename[:6]+basename[-4:]).lower() != 'python.dll' and
fname[-4:].lower() in ('.pyd', '.dll')):
os.system('upx --best "%s"' % os.path.normpath(fname))
return result
def patch_python_dll_winver(self, dll_name, new_winver=None):
# Override this to first check if the file is upx'd and skip if so
if not self.dry_run:
if not os.system('upx -qt "%s" >nul' % dll_name):
if self.verbose:
print "Skipping setting sys.winver for '%s' (UPX'd)" % \
dll_name
else:
py2exe.patch_python_dll_winver(self, dll_name, new_winver)
# We UPX this one file here rather than in copy_file so
# the version adjustment can be successful
if self.upx:
os.system('upx --best "%s"' % os.path.normpath(dll_name))This class would then be used in your main setup() call as:
setup(...
cmdclass = {'py2exe': Py2exe}
...
)For a simple project of mine that is built as a Windows service, this made the binaries in the installation take about a third of the size they would otherwise have needed, which was about half the size of the overall project. When built with UPX it was just under a MB, with the UPXing saving me about a MB on the binaries:
File size Ratio Format Name
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
979005 -> 370176 37.81% win32/pe python23.dll
49212 -> 16896 34.33% win32/pe support/_socket.pyd
57401 -> 18432 32.11% win32/pe support/_sre.pyd
36864 -> 11264 30.55% win32/pe support/_winreg.pyd
45117 -> 17408 38.58% win32/pe support/datetime.pyd
24576 -> 6144 25.00% win32/pe support/perfmon.pyd
20539 -> 5120 24.92% win32/pe support/select.pyd
36864 -> 10752 29.16% win32/pe support/servicemanager.pyd
69632 -> 21504 30.88% win32/pe support/win32api.pyd
24576 -> 5632 22.91% win32/pe support/win32event.pyd
77824 -> 20992 26.97% win32/pe support/win32file.pyd
40960 -> 11776 28.75% win32/pe support/win32service.pyd
61497 -> 23552 38.29% win32/pe support/zlib.pyd
94208 -> 40448 42.93% win32/pe support/pywintypes23.dll
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
1618275 -> 580096 35.84% [ 14 files ]For a much larger project (involving wxPython, Twisted, etc..), the binaries were again about a third of the size, but in this case ended up saving me over 7.5MB of space. The overall project distribution (UPXed) is about 15MB:
File size Ratio Format Name
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
979005 -> 370176 37.81% win32/pe python23.dll
6656 -> 4096 61.53% win32/pe support/_c_urlarg.pyd
73728 -> 26624 36.11% win32/pe support/_ctypes.pyd
280064 -> 133120 47.53% win32/pe support/_imaging.pyd
170496 -> 86016 50.45% win32/pe support/_imagingft.pyd
49212 -> 16896 34.33% win32/pe support/_socket.pyd
27648 -> 9728 35.18% win32/pe support/_speedups.pyd
57401 -> 18432 32.11% win32/pe support/_sre.pyd
495616 -> 197120 39.77% win32/pe support/_ssl.pyd
36864 -> 11264 30.55% win32/pe support/_winreg.pyd
15360 -> 7680 50.00% win32/pe support/cBanana.pyd
45117 -> 17408 38.58% win32/pe support/datetime.pyd
196608 -> 36352 18.49% win32/pe support/htmlc.pyd
24576 -> 6144 25.00% win32/pe support/mmap.pyd
61440 -> 17920 29.16% win32/pe support/mxDateTime.pyd
135228 -> 47616 35.21% win32/pe support/pyexpat.pyd
20539 -> 5120 24.92% win32/pe support/select.pyd
32768 -> 8704 26.56% win32/pe support/sha256.pyd
405504 -> 171008 42.17% win32/pe support/unicodedata.pyd
69632 -> 21504 30.88% win32/pe support/win32api.pyd
24576 -> 5632 22.91% win32/pe support/win32event.pyd
77824 -> 20992 26.97% win32/pe support/win32file.pyd
36864 -> 10752 29.16% win32/pe support/win32process.pyd
20480 -> 5120 25.00% win32/pe support/win32trace.pyd
655360 -> 168448 25.70% win32/pe support/win32ui.pyd
32768 -> 9216 28.12% win32/pe support/win32uiole.pyd
2240512 -> 367616 16.40% win32/pe support/wxc.pyd
61497 -> 23552 38.29% win32/pe support/zlib.pyd
1712128 -> 602112 35.16% win32/pe support/chartdir.dll
69632 -> 27136 38.97% win32/pe support/pychartdir23.dll
315392 -> 105472 33.44% win32/pe support/pythoncom23.dll
94208 -> 40448 42.93% win32/pe support/pywintypes23.dll
3416064 -> 1494016 43.73% win32/pe support/wxmsw24uh.dll
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
11940767 -> 4093440 34.28% [ 33 files ]-- David Bolen