Binary builds for Mac and Windows

[glowinthedark]

Now that v5.0.0 is out the idea was to create native binary builds with all possible dependencies already included. So far didn't manage to generate functional packages using github workflows as nuitka seems to choke while trying to figure out the dlls that needs to be linked in order to make a standalone app.

These are nuitka tk-based generated builds on actual hardware, nuitka builds to native code so there is no actual python interpreter, it's all converted to cpp and compiled to native, and python is only present as a DLL:

• https://github.com/glowinthedark/pyglossary/releases/tag/5.0.0

the dirty WIP scripts that were used to generate these builds:

• windows: https://github.com/glowinthedark/pyglossary/blob/nuitka/build-exe-nuitka.cmd
• macos: https://github.com/glowinthedark/pyglossary/blob/nuitka/build-mac-nuitka-tk.sh

Unfortunately, the scripts are not very reliable and far for 100% reproducible in a generic scenario, so far couldn't bring them to a proper shape that would be good enough for pull request since it's very likely they will fail depending on each specific environment.

If you manage to get the scripts to work in your env maybe you'll want to add the artifacts to the release?

[glowinthedark]

pyglossary on google colab

..not really belonging in this thread, just fyi since don't have other context to put it into: it's relatively easy to run pyglossary in the cloud for example with google colab

[glowinthedark]

scripts for building the windows Inno installer:

• https://github.com/glowinthedark/pyglossary/blob/nuitka/build-inno-setup-installer.cmd - this one just runs "c:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 6\ISCC.exe" inno_setup.iss
• inno_setup.iss - the actual script for Inno

If needed I could make a pull request with these, but again, they are part of a build process that is not 100% reproducible in some controlled env such as such properly configured github runner, or something docker-like so not sure it would make any sense.

[ilius]

• inno_setup.iss - the actual script for Inno

Is this file generated?
It points to your C:\Users\xh.
Also what is "C:\Users\xh\projects\pyglossary\build.PyGlossaryWinNuitka\main.dist\*"?
That directory is not created.