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Request: Add a step-by-step guide explaining how to get a portable python build on linux #9
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Hello,
Thank your your work on this tool !
I'm trying to get a portable build of python 3.10 out of portable-python and I'm probably missing something because builds are... not portable :'(
Here is what I have tried to far in docker running ubuntu:18.04
apt update && apt install python3-pip gcc make libffi-dev zlib1g-dev
pip3 install portable-python
portable-python build 3.10.9The build succeeds but the resulting python build is linked against libffi and libz:
prefix /build/ppp-marker/3.9.16
_bz2 *absent* None
_ctypes 1.1.0 _ctypes*.so ffi:6
_curses *absent* None
_dbm *absent* None
_decimal 1.70 _decimal*.so
_gdbm *absent* None
_lzma _lzma*.so
_sqlite3 *absent* None
_ssl *absent* None
_tkinter *absent* None
_uuid *absent* None
pip 22.0.4 lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip
pyexpat 2.5.0 pyexpat*.so
readline *absent* None
setuptools 58.1.0 lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools
zlib 1.2.11 zlib*.so z:1
libpython*.a 67 MB lib/libpython3.9.a lib/python3.9/config-3.9-x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.9.a
libpython*.so -not used-
install size 122 MB
ERROR Build failed: Uses system libs: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6
INFO Compiling cpython took 6 minutes 46 seconds
INFO Overall compilation took 6 minutes 57 seconds
What should I do to get a fully portable build? And could we document that in a step-by-step how-to guide?
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zsimic commentedon Mar 4, 2023
So sorry I failed to respond earlier, got distracted by other projects.
I will add such a guide, it is lacking indeed!
To see what is going to end up compiled in as shared vs static, you can run the
build-reportcommand as in:portable-python build-report 3.9.16, the output tries to tell you what is going to be shared vs static, and whyContrast that with what would happen if you explicitly asked it to do say "openssl" and "readline" as static: use the
-m(short for--modules) CLI flag for example:What modules to compile in statically can also be configured, with a section like this (this is what I use on macos):