🔒 How to develop for exes?

[tropic harness]

I am working on an application with the end goal of it being an executable, and I would like to know what's a good workflow to achieve that? I also want everything the app needs to be embedded in the executable like images and persistent states.

A good example for a light exe app is sizer who's directory looks something like this:

|_ hook32.dll
|_ hook64.dll
|_ ReadMe.txt
|_ sizer.exe
|_ Stub64.dat

Basically everything the app needs to function is in the exe, including all the configurations you make (i assume they are also saved into the exe somehow, or maybe the .dat file)

[craggy sedge]

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[wicked needle]

while not impossible, it is harder to do in python than doing it in some other compiled language like C
usually people point to tools like pyinstaller/nuitka/etc, though that'll sometimes come with problems like windows wrongly flagging it as a virus, the file size gets pretty big, etc

[tropic harness]

say i were to make it in a compiled language, where/how would I save the app's state? I was thinking of reading and writing into a json file in the same directory but that doesnt sound all that efficient, i ask because would it be the same for python?

[wicked needle]

if you want to preserve state across runs, then obviously you have to put it somewhere
as for how people usually do it... personally I don't really know, I wouldn't imagine json to be a terrible idea? you could use a database & sql as well I guess

[craggy sedge]

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