web2py-desktop

How to make web2py Windows & Macintosh binaries with pyinstaller and pywebview. Forked from nicozanf/web2py-pyinstaller. Read your documentation for more details.

Instructions(for Windows x64 bits)

1. Get a clean Windows 10 (Windows 10 Home 64 bit, under Virtualbox in my case).
2. Grab and install the official Python program: I've got version 3.7.4, 64 bit (https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/python-3.7.3-amd64.exe ) + select "add Python 3.7 to PATH" during its setup if Python 3.
3. Update tools with

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade setuptools

4. Grab latest web2py source (you need at least 2.18.3 for needed changes in gluon\admin.py). Unzip it in a dedicated folder, in this example C:\web2py- so that you have C:\web2py\web2py.py inside.
5. Install PyInstaller with

pip install pyinstaller

6. Install requirements with:

pip install -t site-packages cefpython3
pip install -t site-packages pywebview

See HOWTO-modules for more details.

7. (For Windows 7) download and install the free Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable per Visual Studio 2017, 64 bit version.

8. Copy from this repository start.py to C:\web2py\.

9. Copy build_web2py.py, web2py.win.spec and web2py.win_no_console.spec from this repository to C:\web2py\

10. Open a CMD and go to C:\web2py. Run:

python build_web2py.py`

If everything goes fine, you'll obtain the 64 bit binary build zipped as C:\web2py\web2py_win.zip.