Compiling Websockify as Windows Executable (not working nowadays)

This quick guide provides instructions on how to compile websockify as a Windows application which does not require Python and associated modules to be installed to run. I found this is quite useful as we wished to deploy noVNC to a large number of PC's. To spread the load of running websocket servers we identified running the websocket server on the same PC as the VNC would provide better performance.

NOTE: If you get the error: 'module' object has no attribute 'SIGCHLD', the fix for issue 108 hasn't been included yet.

1. Clone websockify (.zip)

2. Install Portable Python 2.7

3. Modify setup.py:

   from setuptools import setup, find_packages
   # add (line 2):
   import py2exe
   

   ...

   setup(name=name,
   # add (line 10):
         console=['run'],
   

4. Compile websockify including numpy using following command in command prompt (navigate to websockify folder first)

   [full path of Portable Python install]\App\python.exe setup.py py2exe --includes numpy

5. In the websockify folder you will now have a new folder 'dist' which contains the compiled exe, eg.

   run.exe 5901 localhost:5900

Optionally you might also want to run compiled websockify executable as Windows service. If so see this guide: Windows Websockify Service Readme