(Edit: Avoid “premature” optimization advice. The recommendations for tooling in this answer are now outdated: PEP-0632.) If it is at all possible, I’d suggest avoiding extension modules(C/cython) in the beginning. Get your all code written in Python, use a simple distutils based configuration, run your tests using -m (python -m mypkg.test.testall, or whatever; import unittest). … 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
There is a suite of tools from the cloudmatrix guys that addresses that problem. esky is an auto-update framework for frozen apps that is compatible with the common python “packaging” frameworks. signedimp tries to ensure that apps are not modified after they are signed, and to minimize invasive Windows UAC dialogs. myppy aims to insulate … Read more
This worked for me Run pyinstaller and stop it to generate the spec file : pyinstaller filename.py A file with .spec as extension should be generated Now add the following lines to the beginning of the spec file : import sys sys.setrecursionlimit(5000) Now run the spec file using : pyinstaller filename.spec
Pyinstaller produces a binary depending from the python you used to build it. So if you use python 2.7 64 bit it is not possible, as far as I know, to produce a 32 bit executable. This is because Pyinstaller archives all modules and their dependencies (dlls, pyds etc..) which are 64 bit due to … Read more
There is also the official supported option using Tree(): Pyinstaller: generate -exe file + folder (in –onefile mode) The TOC and Tree Classes
I was always getting some false positives with PyInstaller from VirusTotal. This is how I fixed it: PyInstaller comes with pre-compiled bootloader binaries for different OSs. I suggest compile them by yourself on your machine. Make sure everything is consistent on your machine. For Windows 64-bit, install Python 64-bit. Download PyInstaller 64-bit for Windows. Make … Read more
Had a similar problem with no module named FileDialog. Discovered that with version 3.2, I could use pyinstaller –hidden-import FileDialog … instead of modifying my main script. See Listing Hidden Imports documentation
Just had a quick look at the sources. It appears that the version file is expected to be Python source itself as the provided version file with be read and then eval‘ed. The GrabVersion.py script appears to generate errors as you’ve already found, so I modified the __repr__ function of FixedFileInfo to manually convert tuple … Read more
As others (@Anson Chan, @schlimmchen) have said: If you want to add some extra files, you should use Adding Data Files. Two ways to implement Command Line: add parameter to –add-data Spec file: add parameter to datas= Generated when running pyinstaller the first time. Then later you can edit your *.spec file. Then running pyinstaller … Read more