I have 7 scripts that all call eachother at some point, so I want to compile them all and have it as a single .exe that I can run anywhere. Pyinstaller isn't working for me, it keeps coming up with errors such as WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-won-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll dependency of c:\python35\DLLs\_ssl.pyd
Another way to compile your scripts to an .exe is cx_freeze. Or like creyD said Pyinstaller.
Have you tried to use another program (like py2exe or similar)? If this doesn´t help and you can´t merge them into one larger script (what would be my prefered way) maybe you could should check on the dll Pyinstaller can´t find, cause it seems like one of your scripts would need it.
If you need to include the dll file into your exe maybe this Post will help you...
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I have a question for you that is making me crazy.
I am working on my python package. I'm building my package using hatchling and pyproject.toml and I have also three GUI targets.
To make them I'm using the project.gui-scripts section in the project files and indeed, three exe files are included in the scripts directory after the package installation.
All of a sudden two out of three exe files are not starting at all. If you execute it from CMD, you don't get any error message, nothing. I said all of a sudden because in the past they all used to work.
The third one, instead is still working nicely.
Do you know if there is anything I can do to check what's going wrong? Can I debug those exe files?
Thanks in advance,
I wrote a program with Qt and I embedded a .py file in it to do some work.
On my computer which has the Python interpreter installed, the program can run correctly, but when I run it on my roommate's PC, which has NO Python interpreter installed, the program crashed.
The part which is written with Qt runs well but when I push a button to call .py to do some work, the program crashes.
I think the problem is that I haven't put the std library and some other key files of Python into the folder of my program, but I have no idea what files should I pack into it.
So if the problem is really what I thought, what should I do to solve it?
Namely, which files of Python should be packaged into a program to run on the PC with no Python interpreter ?
Thanks in advance.
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As for the code of Python, it's just a hello-world for test and learning. I copy the whole Python34 folder into the program and the question has been solved:). Though it may not be a right way, it works.
Python's documentation has a reference manual for the C/C++ API.
The file I believe you're referring to is Python.h, though I'm no expert on this. It's considerably easier to embed C than C++, and this gives some of the more simple examples. As far as I know, you shouldn't need to worry about the interpreter for compiling to an executable.
I made a program using the pygame module on Python 3 and it works fine within python, but when I try to compile is using py2exe it won't run. (I just get the programName.exe has stopped working error upon trying to run it).
I managed to narrow down this problem to the pygame.font module as when I comment all the lines that use that module everything works fine. I tried to forcefully include the module using the -i flag in py2exe, but it doesn't appear to change anything...
What am I doing terribly wrong?
Edit: I managed to get the reason of the program not working - it crashes as it can not find build\executable.exe\pygame\freesansbold.ttf . What I don't understand is why the hell is the pygame folder supposed to be located in a folder with the name of my executable? (Of course, I can not create a folder with the same name as an existing file in the directory). If anyone has a clue to how to fix it, please help!!
I had the same problem using cx_Freeze, so hopefully this will work for you as well. Open up your pygame package folder. It should be C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages\pygame. There should be a True Type Font File titled freesansbold.ttf. Copy that file then open the folder containing your exe program. There should be a zipped file called library. Open it up and go to the pygame folder inside the zipped file. Should look something like this \build\exe.win32-3.4\library.zip\pygame. And just paste the freesansbold.ttf file in that folder and it should work perfectly.
I managed to find a way! By including -l library.zip argument in the build_exe command and then following the instructions given by DeliriousSyntax in the answer above I managed to get it to work!
I'm trying to convert .py to .exe , but I'm not able to convert it with the help of py2exe in the command line.
I searched on the internet about a py2exe with a GUI frontend and I got the results as:
GUI2EXE (3/5) (The best one I found, but the .exe comes with lots of .dll files and the .exe file is buggy and doesn't work properly.)
H-two-O (2/5) (Waste of time. Doesn't compile any .exe files associated with Tkinter. Very creative and useful for other file formats.)
PytoEXE (1.3/5) (Just as H-two-O , but doesn't compile Tkinter files to .exe)
GP2EXE (?/5) (I didn't try it out. Maybe you can give a view on it.)
PyBuilder (2.7/5) (Reliable, good GUI interface with options but lacks some of the features and compiling speed to that of GUI2EXE.)
PythontoEXE (1.3/5) (Same as PytoEXE)
But these weren't good. I need a compiler better than all of the compilers listed above which can compile Tkinter files to .exe without any bugs.
Here's how I use py2exe. I know this isn't what you're asking for, but according to my experience, it's really annoying until it works. So please hear me out.
Assuming your Python file is called main.py.
New file setup.py (same folder):
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=['main.py'])
From here, you can create a .bat file in the same folder, or run it from the command line. Either way, you'll be running python setup.py py2exe to compile the code.
I have a python script I need to be able to run on a computer not having Python installed on it.
I do have found a compile.py example on this link: Can I somehow "compile" a python script to work on PC without Python installed?
When running it as "python compile.py python_script.py" in command prompt, it seems to work, but py2exe seems to compile everything in Python; language-packages etc. This in turn makes the output directories very, very large, when all I really want is an .exe-file. It also takes a very long time to compile.
The script I am using just imports pandas, datetime and a few other packages.
Is the compiler supposed to take that much time and space? Is there another, easier way than explained in the link above?
Thanks
I would recommend using pyinstaller. There's an option for an .exe only. In terms of size, it'll be just as large, but will only be the single exe.