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by fiatjaf 4130 days ago
I don't understand it. Am I supposed to be able to create standalone executables with this? How?
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Yes. You can compile to .exe files.

>The resulting binary still depends on CPython and used C >extension modules being installed.

> If you want to be able to copy it to another machine, > use --standalone and copy the created program.dist directory > and execute the program.exe put inside.

http://nuitka.net/doc/user-manual.html#use-case-1-program-co...

Thank you.
It's similar to Facebook's HipHop PHP to C++ transpiler (HPHPc). It was deprecated in favor of HHVM JIT technology.