在 Windows CE 8.0 上运行 .exe

Question

I'm trying to start a .exe-file on my machine which is running Windows CE 8.00.

The .exe-file was generated with the help of PyInstaller ( https://www.pyinstaller.org/ ) which converted my Python script to such a file. I used a laptop running Windows 10 for this operation.

The .exe-file runs as intended on other laptops (also Windows 10) but when I try to run it on the intended machine with Windows CE 8.00 I get an error message displayed: File.exe is not a valid Windows Embeded Compact application.

Information about the machine:

• Windows 8.00 Build 6270
• Processor Type: AMD Steppe Eagle

I'm completely clueless where to start to look for an alternative solution. Online there is not much information about this topic.

I've tryed dowloading Python CE ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/pythonce/ ) but when starting the .exe-file for the installation I've got the same error message as before: *... is not a valid Windows Embeded Copact application".

Answer 1

Windows CE is not compatible with Windows (NT,XP,7,8 or 10), it's a different OS that share similar APIs. There's no way to run the same exe on both. You may be able to build two executables (WinCE and Windows) from the same code base, but that depends on the language and I am not aware of tools converting python to native WinCE exe.