sigh that's not "compiling" as programmers usually use it. PyInstaller merely packages uncompiled python programs into a self-extracting archive. Cython, on the

sigh that's not "compiling" as programmers usually use it. PyInstaller merely packages uncompiled python programs into a self-extracting archive. Cython, on the other hand, can truly compile python3 into gcc object files which are then linkable.