[QUESTION] Python Folder Dependencies to make it work without python installed
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Description
I'm making a game engine in C++ where the user can write python code inside it. I'm using pybind11 and Python 3 for that.
Problem is that I don't want to require the user to have python installed on his machine in order to run the software and the solution that I found is to copy the entire encodings and Lib folder from my python installation to the engine directory and ship it with those folders. That way I can run it in another machine without python installed (tested).
But those folders are extremely huge in terms of file count and I'm not finding any documentation about the minimal dependencies necessary to make it run.
So how can I get the minimal folders to make it work without python installed?
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No source files or tests are named. Start with pybind11's Python 3 embedding documentation and the runtime-dependency setup described in the issue; determine which files are required for a standalone deployment and document the minimal folder set, including how to verify it on a machine without Python installed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100