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 cd debian dpkg --build lightningbeam ./ 2. Now there is a package, which can be installed however. 3. To create a RPM package: sudo apt-get install alien alien -r lightningbeam.deb 4. To create a Slackware TGZ package: alien -t lightningbeam.deb Building on Mac OSX: 1. In a terminal, type: /usr/bin/python setup.py py2app 2. This will create an .app package.