Re: [cx-freeze-users] cx-freeze on a wsgi app

[Tony M. <to...@sp...>]

> I would like to ask if there is any chance to generate a python binary with cx-freeze to be used in a web service (in this case in an Apache WSGI).  If the answer is yes, how could I do it?

The way I've made this work is to use a small "wrapper" for the frozen
app, and pointed Apache/mod_wsgi to that.  For example:

"""
import sys

sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/frozen/app/")
sys.path.insert(1, "/path/to/frozen/app/library.zip")

import frozen_app
application = frozen_app.application
"""

This doesn't use the Python in the frozen version, but it does prefer
the packages in the frozen app to any others.  If your use-case for
cx-freeze is to bundle up all the dependencies together, then this
suffices (assuming you have your system Python at the same major
version).  If you need the actual executable to run, then I couldn't
find a way to do that without patching mod_wsgi itself.

Cheers,
Tony