/cx_Freeze

Create standalone executables from Python scripts, with the same performance and is cross-platform.

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cx_Freeze creates standalone executables from Python scripts, with the same performance, is cross-platform and should work on any platform that Python itself works on.

Installation

In a virtual environment, install by issuing the command:

pip install --upgrade cx_Freeze

To install the latest development build:

pip install --pre --extra-index-url https://marcelotduarte.github.io/packages/ cx_Freeze

Please check the installation for more information and how to install in others environment such as pipenv, conda-forge, etc.

Documentation

Documentation Status

The official documentation is available here.

If you need help you can also ask on the discussion channel.

Highlights of Version 6.12:

  • Improve tkinter hook to work on all OS
  • Improved PyQt5/Pyside2 hooks and new hook for PySide6
  • Linux binary wheels for arm64 (aarch64)
  • Bug fixes and improvements

Highlights of Version 6.2 up to 6.11:

  • Binary wheels for manylinux and macOS (including Apple Silicon)
  • Complete integration to setuptools instead of distutils
  • Support Application Manifests in Windows: manifest and uac-admin
  • New dependency resolver on Windows
  • Support for pathlib.Path
  • New or improved hooks, with emphasis on matplotlib, numpy, PyQt5 and PySide2
  • New ModuleFinder engine uses importlib.machinery
  • Refactored Freezer
  • New support for package metadata improving Module and new DitributionCache
  • Enhanced support for Python 3.8 to 3.10, including MSYS2 and Anaconda distributions
  • Improvements for multiprocessing
  • Optimizations in detection and distribution of libraries
  • Code modernization
  • Various bug fixes.

License

License

cx_Freeze uses a license derived from the Python Software Foundation License. You can read the cx_Freeze license in the documentation or in the source repository.