Building on Windows: 1. In a CMD window, type: c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py py2exe 2. Copy the GUI folder from the root directory into dist\. 3. The executable is in dist\lightningbeam.exe. You probably do need most of the DLL's, I haven't gone through them yet. Building on Ubuntu/Debian: 1. In a terminal, type: ./mkdebian 2. This will create a .deb package, a RPM package, and a TGZ package. Building on Mac OSX: 1. In a terminal, type: /usr/bin/python setup.py py2app 2. This will create an .app package.