PyOxidizer Alternatives

PyOxidizer reviews and mentions

• AI and the Ship of Theseus
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2026

  > Strange this with this whole incident apart from the rewrite/LLM part is the general misundrstanding of the licences. LGPL being a pretty permissive one going as far as allowing one to incorporate it in propriety code without the linking reciprocity clause

  The short version is that chardet is a dependency of requests which is very popular, and you cannot distribute PyInstaller/PyOxidizer builds with chardet due to how these systems bundle up dependencies.

  [1]: https://velovix.github.io/post/lgpl-gpl-license-compliance-w...

  [2]: https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/issues/142

• PyOxidizer
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2024
• Show HN: Pywebview 5
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024

  Bundling Python isn't too bad if you find the right tools for it.

  I really like https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone and https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer

  A bundled, built standalone Python can be 16 to 32MB (including the full standard library, which you can strip down to just the bits you use to save size). Not tiny, but probably not worth switching programming languages over.

• Why do you enjoy systems programming languages?
  2 projects | /r/rust | 25 May 2023

  But really, I would suggest thinking about what you want to build before "how" or "with which tool" - one of the signs of a person becoming a good engineer is having an array of tools at their disposal and being able to choose a correct tool for the correct task. Rust also excels in integrating with other languages - with JS via WebAssembly (a bit of self-promotion, for example), with Elixir via Rustler, with Python via PyO3 and PyOxidizer, etc. So you absolutely can start writing a frontend app with JS, or a distributed system with Elixir, or a data processing/ML app with Python and use Rust to speed up critical parts of those. Or, in reverse, you can start with Rust & add new capabilities to whatever you're building, that being a frontend, a resilient chat interface, or an ML model.

• List of Python compilers
  2 projects | /r/Python | 9 May 2023

  Thank you, although this is not exactly on topic. I'd not heard of PyOxidizer, but it appears to have the same goal as PyInstaller, py2exe, and cx_Freeze -- as the PyOxidizer readme says, it produces

• Buck2, a large scale build tool written in Rust by Meta, is now available
  11 projects | /r/rust | 6 Apr 2023

  Here is some example Github Action from PyOxidizer as a Kickstarter: https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/blob/main/.github/workflows/build-exe.yml

• Mitogen speedup (the actual value)
  2 projects | /r/ansible | 5 Mar 2023

  A starting point to try out binary modules by the way would be https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer - could already have benefits by rolling in all dependencies of modules (so no more pip/apt/dnf/... installs on target hosts). Setting this up should be relatively straightforward and could probably be automated enough to even manage to build binary modules for all modules in the community ansible distribution eventually.

• Python Magic Methods You Haven’t Heard About
  1 project | /r/Python | 14 Dec 2022
• What are different ways to make a Python exe besides py-to-exe?
  2 projects | /r/Python | 14 Sep 2022

  PyOxidizer might be another option.

• Used "Py To EXE" and It Showed KeyLogger as One of Viruses
  2 projects | /r/Python | 13 Sep 2022
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