For Windows: You have to use a line like this (use file folders and names as appropriate) C:/Python/Scripts/cxfreeze C:/Python/Code/yourprogram.py –base-name=Win32GUI –target-dir C:/Python/Dist By adding the –base-name=Win32GUI option, the console window will not appear.
I used cx_freeze for a project at work. I’m not sure if this is your problem… but I was using the Anaconda distribution, and cx_freeze was not properly gathering the .dll’s that I needed for my project. The solution was to: Install a plane version of Python make an environment with the packages that I … Read more
I decided to go with cx_Freeze. It created a distro that I was able to simply copy and move to the target machine. Also, it was much easier to use than py2exe; further it seems that it is still being maintained (as of Mar 10, 2011), while py2exe development does not look as active.
The reason is lack of fork() on Windows (which is not entirely true). Because of this, on Windows the fork is simulated by creating a new process in which code, which on Linux is being run in child process, is being run. As the code is to be run in technically unrelated process, it has … Read more
When building an app with cx_Freeze on MacOSX all dependent libraries (.so files on MacOSX) are packaged into the application bundle. It is this that makes the application portable to other systems, without requiring a second install of Qt. When launching the Application, the libraries should therefore be loaded from within the bundle. However, in … Read more
I tried both for a current project and decided to use cx_freeze. I found it easier to get started. It has an option to bundle dependencies in a zip archive, which makes it easy to check that everything was properly included. I had trouble getting PyInstaller to include certain egg dependencies. It couldn’t handle conditional … Read more
Add import sys as the new topline You misspelled “executables” on the last line. Remove script = on last line. The code should now look like: import sys from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable setup( name = “On Dijkstra’s Algorithm”, version = “3.1”, description = “A Dijkstra’s Algorithm help tool.”, executables = [Executable(“Main.py”, base = “Win32GUI”)]) … Read more
You can work around this error by setting the environment variables manually: set TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Program Files\Python35-32\tcl\tcl8.6 set TK_LIBRARY=C:\Program Files\Python35-32\tcl\tk8.6 You can also do that in the setup.py script: os.environ[‘TCL_LIBRARY’] = r’C:\Program Files\Python35-32\tcl\tcl8.6′ os.environ[‘TK_LIBRARY’] = r’C:\Program Files\Python35-32\tcl\tk8.6′ setup([..]) But I found that actually running the program doesn’t work. On the cx_freeze mailinglist it was mentioned: I have … Read more
Figured it out. from cx_Freeze import setup,Executable includefiles = [‘README.txt’, ‘CHANGELOG.txt’, ‘helpers\uncompress\unRAR.exe’, , ‘helpers\uncompress\unzip.exe’] includes = [] excludes = [‘Tkinter’] packages = [‘do’,’khh’] setup( name=”myapp”, version = ‘0.1’, description = ‘A general enhancement utility’, author=”lenin”, author_email=”le…@null.com”, options = {‘build_exe’: {‘includes’:includes,’excludes’:excludes,’packages’:packages,’include_files’:includefiles}}, executables = [Executable(‘janitor.py’)] ) Note: include_files must contain “only” relative paths to the setup.py script … Read more
Importing sys will not be enough to make exit live in the global scope. You either need to do from sys import exit exit() or import sys sys.exit() Note that, as you are also using argv, in the first case you should do from sys import argv,exit