Recipe that allows to cross-compile a window(32bits) .exe out of a python script under linux.

cross-compile.txt

#recipe from https://milkator.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/windows-executable-from-python-developing-in-ubuntu/
# allows to cross-compile a window(32bits) .exe out of a python script under linux.

cat > test.py <<< EOF
    print "hello world !"
EOF

apt-get install scons wine

git clone https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller
git clone https://github.com/htgoebel/virtual-wine.git

./virtual-wine/vwine-setup venv_wine
. venv_wine/bin/activate

#get windows installer (32bits)
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.8/python-2.7.8.msi
wine msiexec -i python-2.7.8.msi

#get pywin32 (32bits) --dependency for pyinstaller
wget http://vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net/project/pywin32/pywin32/Build%20219/pywin32-219.win32-py2.7.exe
wine pywin32-219.win32-py2.7.exe

#run pyinstaller
wine c:/Python27/python.exe pyinstaller/pyinstaller.py --onefile test.py

file dist/test.exe