[egenix-users] pyrun -- adding libraries

[John R. Frank]

>>>> My goal is use pyrun to deploy a python program that depends on the 
>>>> lxml python module, which needs libxslt.so.1, libexslt.so.0, 
>>>> libxml2.so.2
>>>>
>>>> These are available on my Ubuntu build system from the debian 
>>>> packages libxml2 and libxslt -- and I could rebuild them from source. 
>>>> How does one get PyRun to incorporate such additional libraries, so I 
>>>> can then deploy pyrun (and our custom program) to other machines that 
>>>> do not have any of these libraries?
>>>
>>> Additional libraries can be included in pyrun, but only if the libs 
>>> can be statically linked and the Python extensions interfacing to them 
>>> support static linking as well.
>>>
>>> One of the things we'd like to do is make the configuration of such 
>>> things easier. At the moment, this requires digging deep into the way 
>>> the pyrun is built.
>>>
>>> You have to add a corresponding section for the Python extension to 
>>> Runtime/Setup.PyRun-2.7 and the include_list in Runtime/makepyrun.py
>>
>>
>> I don't see "Runtime" in the stuff downloaded by install-pyrun, and 
>> while the web page [1] mentions a source tarball, I cannot find a link 
>> to download a source archive for pyrun.  Am I missing it on that page?
>
> The Runtime/ dir is part of the source tarball. It is not included in 
> the binary archives that install-pyrun fetches from our site.
>
> Please see the download section for the download link:
>
> http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/#Download


Found it, thanks!  Reading it.

Strategy question:  what do you see as the advantages or differences 
between building PyRun-based deploy and building a chroot containing 
python and all our dependencies using something like deboostrap [1]?

Thanks for your expertise on this.

Regards,
John



[1] -  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot