= Introduction =

Portable application generator is used to create offline windows standalone instance with or without data exported from a live Sahana Eden instance. This page serves as a guide for its usage.

= Create web2py standalone exe =

The portable application generator requires a web2py exe built with the libraries required by Sahana Eden. 

1. Install the Eden developer environment with python 2.7 [http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/InstallationGuidelinesDeveloper] 
2. Install cxfreeze from [http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/]
3. Copy static/scripts/tools/standalone_exe_cxfreeze.py to your web2py directory.
4. Run the following to generate a standalone web2py executable in the build directory of the web2py directory.
{{{
python standalone_exe_cxfreeze.py build_exe
}}}
5. Rename the build inside the build directory as web2py and compress it to create web2py.zip ('''Note: The zip file needs to uncompress to produce a directory named web2py''')

= Using Portable application generator =

1. Upload the web2py.zip created above to your Sahana Eden instance.
2. Select the required options to generate the portable application.
3. After initial generation of the portable application - a provision is provided to download the last built portable application.