gen-exe 0.1.0

A small utility which allows you to generate Windows executables that can run custom commands on your Windows system.

A small utility which allows you to generate Windows executables that can run custom commands on your Windows system.

Custom commands can be embedded in the executables by providing a command string to the CLI, for example:

gen-exe ./test.exe "echo hello world"

The command string argument also supports the {EXE_DIR} macro, which expands the path where the executable is executed from, for example:

gen-exe ./test.exe "echo I am running from: {EXE_DIR}"

This can be used to run relative executables:

gen-exe ./test.exe "{EXE_DIR}\\another.exe"

Optionally you can provide an icon file for the executable.

gen-exe ./test.exe "echo I have a fancy icon now..." -i ./path-to-your.ico

Another use case is to call a script or command using a Python interpreter, for example:

gen-exe ./test.exe "python -c print(\'hello world\')"

For other options see the help:

gen-exe --help

Installation

Install from PyPi using:

pip install gen-exe

Contributing

Fork the solitude repository

Setup your forked repository locally as an editable installation:

$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/yourproject/genexe
$ pip install --editable ./genexe

Now you can work locally and create your own pull requests.

Maintainer

Sil van de Leemput

History

0.0.1 (2021-02-06)

• Initial release on PyPi