I want to make a .exe file from my python project, I have made a GUI in tkinter. This project has multiple files and uses a variety of libraries.
I tried to use auto-py-to-exe but it gave a variety of errors concerning the use of tkinter, saying it can not find tkinter. I do not understand this error since tkinter is automatically installed with python? Are there better ways to use auto-py-to-exe or better programs to convert a hole project to .exe? I also tried pyinstaller, but when opening the program it immediately closes again. The program does run properly in pycharm.
The error is I\output\main_init_.py", line 1, in <module> import tkinter ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'
I personally use CX-Freeze to compile my executables. I have probably used it over 100 or so updates of my tools and typically the problem I run into is either related to missing file that need to be identified in the setup.py file or the fact that when it compiles the Tkinter folder it uses a capital T instead of a lower case t so after I compiling an app I have to manually update the folder to be lowercase T.
Here is an example of the setup file.
As you can see below when compiling tkinter you need to ID the TK and TCL library folders in order for it to compile the listed DLL files properly.
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import os
base = "Win32GUI"
os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Python381\tcl\tcl8.6'
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = r'C:\Users\user\Desktop\Python381\tcl\tk8.6'
build_exe_options = {'packages': ['os',
'json',
'http',
'email',
'pyodbc',
'openpyxl',
'calendar',
'threading',
'datetime',
'tkinter',
'tkinter.ttk',
'tkinter.messagebox'],
'excludes': ['PyQt5',
'PIL',
'numpy',
'pandas'], # 'urllib', # 'encodings', # 'numpy'
'include_files': [r'excel_temp.xlsx',
r'opt_3_excel_temp.xlsx',
r'tcoms_excel_temp.xlsx',
r'main_config.json',
r"C:\Users\user\Desktop\Python381\DLLs\tcl86t.dll",
r"C:\Users\user\Desktop\Python381\DLLs\tk86t.dll"]}
setup(
name='<GIT>',
options={'build_exe': build_exe_options},
version='0.57',
description='<GIT - Global Inventory Tool!>',
executables=[Executable(r'C:\Users\user\PycharmProjects\Py381_GIT\MAIN.py', base=base)]
)
After you run the compiler you will often get an error that looks like this.
The error NoduleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter' is due to the odd behavior of the compiler giving the tkinter folder a Capital T like the below image in the lib folder.
In this case you would update the library to be a lowercase t.
Use this package :
python -m pip install auto-py-to-exe
Run this command :
auto-py-to-exe
Related
cx_Freeze import _tkinter #if this fails your python may not be configurated for Tk.. ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid win32 application
Hi! I created a word guessing/memorizing language practice program in tkinter, and i wanted to convert it to an executable app but i get errors again and again... I tried at least 10-15 different ways but it is still same. So i googled all the similar topics and tried every single suggestion but they did not work for me. I tried pyinstaller as well. It does not give an error but also it does not run the executed app either. When i click on the app.exe, black CMD screen appears then disappears and it creates the csv file to save the words. So i changed to cx_Freeze but it does not work either.
What have i tried?
For pyinstaller:
I converted my app.py to app.exe by using pyinstaller -F app.py and pyinstaller app.py, but none of them worked.
For cx_Freeze
1- I tried my old setup.py (which worked to convert my all games to .exe) but it did not work on this, i guess it is about tkinter. Because my games were written with pygame, i did not use tkinter for anything.
2 -I tried at least 10 different setup files shared by you guys on stackoverflow and other websites. But they did not work either.
3- I tried to set environment
4- I tried to specify environment
5- I copied tcl86t.dll and tk86t.dll files from the python dlls to my app directory and added them as included files in the setup.py
6- I deleted 64bit version and i only have 32bit version of python3.7
and more and more...
So this is my current setup.py
import sys,os
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = "C:\Python37\tcl\tcl8.6"
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = "C:\Python37\tcl\tk8.6"
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os"],"includes":["tkinter"],"include_files": []}
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
setup( name = "App",
version = "0.1",
description = "My GUI application!",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("app.py", base=base)]
)
I use Windows7 64bit and Python 3.7.1 32bit and 3.7.0 64bit
So what should i do? I am stuck here. I really gave up and asking a new question on here. Please help me guys.. Thanks in advance.
I am currently trying to use cx_Freeze to create a .exe file for my python scripts.
First, do cx_freeze get all data on the folder into the build folder?
Secondly, I'm having an issue when launching the .exe file. The fact that the first file opens the second one could be the issue ?
The console opened and closed, according to another post on Stackoverflow, I created a .bat file containing :
myfilename.exe%1
pause
to check out what the issue is and I got this issue :
Issue
I've really no idea what to do next since I tried many things on the setup.py to make things working.
Here is the setup.py :
"""setup.py"""
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import os
os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = "C:\\Users\\Roukira\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36\\tcl\\tcl8.6"
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = "C:\\Users\\Roukira\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36\\tcl\\tk8.6"
build_exe_options = {"includes": ["tkinter"]}
setup(name="todolist",
version="0.1",
description = "A simple to do list with differnt tabs per account.",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("login_system.py",base=None)])
I'm only using pillow as an external module but it doesn't seem to be the issue.
Thanks for your help by advance !
EDIT : I managed to fix it by adding the ddl missing files path inside the "include_files" option:
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os", "tkinter"], "include_files": ["to_do_list.py","336sur525.gif","384sur540.gif",
"accounts.txt","button_hide_2.gif","button_quit_2.gif","choose.gif","icone.ico","user.gif",
r"C:\Users\Roukira\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\DLLs\tcl86t.dll",
r"C:\Users\Roukira\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\DLLs\tk86t.dll"]}
My script was using a subprocess.call function to call another script, so it didn't work after becoming .exe, I added the .py file inside the "include_files" and it worked as intended.
I am using Python 2.7 to build my application. Within it, I used few packages which are numpy, scipy, csv, sys, xlwt, time, wxpython and operator.
All the above packages are in 64-bit, and I am using python 2.7(64-bit version) in Aptana Studio 3(64-bit version) in Windows 7 Professional (64-bit version).
At last, I'd like to compile my project to an application using following code, the file name is py2exeTest.py:
from distutils.core import setup
import numpy # numpy is imported to deal with missing .dll file
import py2exe
setup(console=["Graphical_Interface.py"])
Then in cmd, I switched to the directory of the project and used following line to compile it:
python py2exeTest.py py2exe
Everything goes well, it generates an application under dist directory, and the application name is Graphical_Interface.exe.
I double clicked it, but there is a cmd window appears, and a python output windows flashes, then both of them disappeared. I tried to run the application as an administrator, the same outcome I've had.
May I know how to work this out?
Thanks!
EDIT:
I've managed to catch the error information that flashes on the screen. The error info I had is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Graphical_Interface.py", line 397, in <module>
File "Graphical_Interface.py", line 136, in __init__
File "wx\_core.pyc", line 3369, in ConvertToBitmap
wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "image.Ok()" failed at ..\..\src\msw\bitmap.cpp(802) in wxBitmap::CreateFromImage(): invalid image
I used one PNG image in the project, the code is like follows:
self.workflow = wx.Image("Work Flow.png", wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY).ConvertToBitmap()
wx.StaticBitmap(self.panel_settings, -1, self.workflow, (330,270), (self.workflow.GetWidth(), self.workflow.GetHeight()))
I tried to comment the above chunk out from the project, and the application works properly. However, I need the image to show up in the application.
May I know how to deal with it?
Thanks.
Hiding console window of Python GUI app with py2exe
When compiling graphical applications you can not create them as a console application because reasons (honestly can't explain the specifics out of my head), but try this:
from distutils.core import setup
import numpy
import py2exe
import wxpython
setup(window=['Graphical_Interface.py'],
options={"py2exe" { 'boundle_files' : 1}})
Also consider changing to:
http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/
It works with Python3 and supports multiple platforms.
A cx_freeze script would look something like:
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need fine tuning.
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os"], "excludes": ["tkinter"]}
# GUI applications require a different base on Windows (the default is for a
# console application).
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
includefiles = ['/folder/image.png']
setup( name = "GUIprog",
version = "0.1",
description = "My GUI application!",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options, 'include_files' : includefiles},
executables = [Executable("Graphical_Interface.py", base=base)])
No worries, I've got the solution.
It turns out that the image is in the project folder rather than in the dist folder. So I have two solutions:
Copy the image into dist folder
Include the full path of the image in the code.
Thanks for your help.
So I am trying to freeze a Python script as an .exe. I installed cx_freeze to do so as I am using 3.4. I created the setup.py file successfully and also ran the build which appears in the build folder and .exe appears. However, when I open the .exe it displays the following error:
zipimport.ZipImportError: can't find module 'cx_Freeze__init__'
Fatal python error: unable to locate initialization module
Current thread 0x00001d58 <most recent call first>:
I believe I did everything else correctly. There is indeed a cx_Freeze_init_.pyc file in the library.zip, however it cannot find it for some reason. The only other error I had was that certain modules were missing when during the cmd build:
Missing modules:
? _dummy_threading imported from dummy_threading
? ce imported from os
? doctest imported from heapq
? getopt imported from base64, quopri
? org.python.core imported from copy
? os.path imported from os
? posix imported from os
? pwd imported from posixpath
? subprocess imported from os
This is not necessarily a problem - the modules may not be needed on this platfo
rm.
This is the setup.py I used:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need
# fine tuning.
buildOptions = dict(packages = [], excludes = [])
base = 'Console'
executables = [
Executable('guess.py', base=base)
]
setup(name='Guess',
version = '1.0',
description = 'test',
options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
executables = executables)
Thanks in advance!
I made my first program (a gui calculator) in python using tkinter and am trying to use cx_freeze to turn it into an exe file. I'm really confused in how it works thought. I used cxfreeze quickstart in the scripts section of python33 to make my setup file. The program is named Calculator
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need
# fine tuning.
buildOptions = dict(packages = [], excludes = [])
executables = [
Executable('Calculator.py', 'Win32GUI')
]
setup(name='Calculator',
version = '1.0',
description = '',
options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
executables = executables)
When I got to the console and type python setup.py build I get the error:
cx_Freeze.freezer.ConfigError: no initscript named Win32GUI
can anyone recommend a tutorial for using cx_Freeze or any other programs to make python code as exe format?
I suggest you try PyInstaller.
To convert a script to an exe file, you'd have to type something like this in a command prompt:
/path/to/python/pythonX.Y pyinstaller.py --onefile /path/to/your/script.py
Simple as that.