How to compile all resources into one executable file?

Question

I\'ve wrote GTK application with python.

All graphical user interface is in glade file, and there are some images used. I wish to compile my application into EXEcuta

Answer 1

Is there any way to compile those files into executable?

Strictly speaking: no, because you compile source code, while the glade file is XML and the images are binary data. What you would normally do is to create an installer (i.e. a self-unpacking archive that will place different files in the correct directories when the installer is ran).

EDIT: If your concern is simply to have a one-file executable (so it's not about "compiling" but really about the number of files that are permanently written on the filesystem) you could try to use this script based on py2exe. What it does, is to create temporary files each time the program is ran, removing them when execution is completed.

EDIT2: Apparently what you are asking for is also possible under PyInstaller. From the documentation:

By default, pyinstaller.py creates a distribution directory containing the main executable and the dynamic libraries. The option --onefile specifies that you want PyInstaller to build a single file with everything inside.