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cx_freeze no based named 'Win32GUI' error when creating a EXE

I want to convert a application into an executable file and have use cx_freeze for that purpose.
But i got this Error-Message:
......executable.py, line 86, in base
raise ConfigError(f"no base named {name!r}")
cx_Freeze.exception.ConfigError: no base named 'Win32GUI'
Versions: Win 10 Home (x64); Python 3.9.6; Cx_Freeze 6.8; PyQt - 5.15.4;
It's strange because some time ago this code worked without problem?!
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
try:
from cx_Freeze.hooks import get_qt_plugins_paths
except ImportError:
include_files = []
else:
# Inclusion of extra plugins (new in cx_Freeze 6.8b2)
# cx_Freeze imports automatically the following plugins depending of the
# use of some modules:
# imageformats - QtGui
# platforms - QtGui
# mediaservice - QtMultimedia
# printsupport - QtPrintSupport
#
# So, "platforms" is used here for demonstration purposes.
include_files = get_qt_plugins_paths("PyQt5", "platforms")
# base="Win32GUI" should be used only for Windows GUI app
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
build_exe_options = {
"excludes": [""],
"include_files": include_files,
}
bdist_mac_options = {
"bundle_name": "Test",
}
bdist_dmg_options = {
"volume_label": "TEST",
}
executables = [Executable("main.py", base=base, target_name="TESTS")]
setup(
name="simple_PyQt5",
version="0.3",
description="Sample cx_Freeze PyQt5 script",
options={
"build_exe": build_exe_options,
"bdist_mac": bdist_mac_options,
"bdist_dmg": bdist_dmg_options,
},
executables=executables,
)

found the solution.
Updated all requirements (pip´s) and then it worked. Dont know why this happend but ok

Adding an icon for my exe file with CX_freeze

I am converting a .py file to a .exe file using cx_freeze. Which is working but I can not seem to change it so that my .exe file has the custom icon I have. This is what I have tried so far:
'''
import sys
import os
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath("./src/"))
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath("./src/gui/rc/"))
**Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need fine tuning.**
buildOptions = {
"packages": ["src.gui",
"src.qt_models",
"src.data",
"src.libs",
"src.tguiil",
"src.graphics"
],
"includes": ["scipy.sparse.csgraph._validation",
"scipy.ndimage._ni_support",
"scipy._distributor_init"
],
"include_files": ["database/"],
"excludes": []
}
installOptions = {}
bdistOptions = {}
base = None
** Uncomment for GUI applications to NOT show cmd window while running.**
if sys.platform =='win32':
base = 'Win32GUI'
executables = [
Executable(script = 'src/facile.py', base=base, targetName = 'facile.exe', icon = 'facade_logo.ico')
]
setup(name='Facile',
version = '1.0',
description = 'A platform for generating Python APIs used to control graphical user interfaces.',
options = {
"build_exe": buildOptions,
"install_exe": installOptions,
"bdist_msi": bdistOptions,
},
executables = executables)
'''
I have no idea what could be wrong.

Figured it out! Just needed to add relative path to file and add distutils as a package to handle external dependencies:
'''
buildOptions = {
"packages": [
# Facile sub-packages
"src.gui",
"src.qt_models",
"src.data",
"src.libs",
"src.tguiil",
"src.graphics",
# External dependencies
"distutils"
],
'''

Compile a Python project Windows

I have the following directory structure to my python project:
eplusplus/
|
|
----__main__.py
----model/
----exception/
----controller/
----view/
The directories: model, exception, controller and view each one has its
__init__.py. When I run the program at my machine I always use this following command: py -m eplusplus. But when I tried to use py2exe or pytinstaller the the points to: permission denied. For what I found, this is because its a directory I trying to compile, but when I compiled the __main__.py it compiled normally, but when I try to execute it says: Error! No eplusplus module founded!
I have no setup.py file and I don't know how they worked.

After some very intensive research and error and try I succeeded by doing this:
I added an empty __init__.py at the eplusplus folder
Out of the eplusplus folder, I had to write a compilation.py file (the file doesn't necessary must have this) to include all libraries I was using (I will post the file at the end of this answer)
Finally, at the PowerShell, all I have to type was py compilation.py py2exe
Thanks for all that tried to help me!
compilation.py file:
#To compile we need to run: python compilation.py py2exe
from distutils.core import setup
from glob import glob
import os
import py2exe
import pyDOE
VERSION=1.0
includes = [
"sip",
"PyQt5",
"PyQt5.QtCore",
"PyQt5.QtGui",
"PyQt5.QtWidgets",
"scipy.linalg.cython_blas",
"scipy.linalg.cython_lapack",
"pyDOE"
]
platforms = ["C:\\Python34\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyQt5\\plugins" +
"\\platforms\\qwindows.dll"]
dll = ["C:\\windows\\syswow64\\MSVCP100.dll",
"C:\\windows\\syswow64\\MSVCR100.dll"]
media = ["C:\\Users\\GUSTAVO\\EPlusPlus\\media\\title.png",
"C:\\Users\\GUSTAVO\\EPlusPlus\\media\\icon.png"]
documents = ["C:\\Users\\GUSTAVO\\EPlusPlus\\docs\\"+
"documentacaoEPlusPlus.pdf"]
examples = ["C:\\Users\\GUSTAVO\\EPlusPlus\\files\\"+
"\\examples\\baseline2A.idf",
"C:\\Users\\GUSTAVO\\EPlusPlus\\files\\"+
"\\examples\\vectors.csv",
"C:\\Users\\GUSTAVO\\EPlusPlus\\files\\"+
"\\examples\\BRA_SC_Florianopolis.838970_INMET.epw"]
datafiles = [("platforms", platforms),
("", dll),
("media", media),
("docs", documents),
("Examples", examples)]
imageformats = glob("C:\\Python34\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyQt5\\"+
"plugins\\imageformats\\*")
datafiles.append(("imageformats", imageformats))
setup(
name="eplusplus",
version=VERSION,
packages=["eplusplus"],
url="",
license="",
windows=[{"script": "eplusplus/__main__.py"}],
scripts=[],
data_files = datafiles,
options={
"py2exe": {
"includes": includes,
}
}
)

exe error with cx_freeze

Hey am relatively new to compiling python scripts to exe. Im using cx_freeze to compile my scripts and once its built i run the exe and it gives me this error. Have google around alot but not too sure. Error is:
Cannot import traceback module.
Exception: No module named re
Original Exception: No module named re
Not too sure how to go about fixing this. I read that possibly there is a clash between a module named re? in python? and a module named re in cx_freeze module?
My setup file looks like:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
includes = []
includefiles = ['remindersText.pkl']
eggsacutibull = Executable(
script = "podlancer.py",
initScript = None,
base = 'Win32GUI',
targetName = "podlancer.exe",
compress = True,
copyDependentFiles = True,
appendScriptToExe = False,
appendScriptToLibrary = False,
icon = None
)
setup(
name = "Podlancer",
version = "0.1",
author = 'jono',
description = "Podlancer UI script",
options = {"build_exe": {"includes":includes, "include_files": includefiles}},
executables = [eggsacutibull]
)

Try to change
includes = []
to
includes = ["re"]
That worked for me

cx_freeze will barf if the runtime working directory is not the directory that the executable is in.
Is re the first import you do? What happens when you do them in a different order?

Meeting this same problem putting re in includes didn't work for me. It produced a cx_Freeze.freezer.ConfigError when rebuilding the .py file.
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
build_exe_options = {'include_files': ['re']}
setup( name = "Foreground Window Montior",
version = "0.1",
description = "Query the foreground window.",
options = {'build_exe': build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("actWin_Query.py")])
If I put re in packages rather than in include_files it did not produce this compile error.
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["re"]}
setup( name = "Foreground Window Montior",
version = "0.1",
description = "Query the foreground window.",
options = {'build_exe': build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("actWin_Query.py")])

py2exe bundle_files=1 or 2 fails

My application uses QGraphicsPixmapItem, and to make it able to load jpeg files I've placed qjpeg4.dll under 'imageformats' subdirectory in the 'dist' directory.
It works, but only as long as 'bundle_files' option is set to 3.
If I set it to 1 or 2, qt4 (pyqt4) is no longer able to find needed dlls, and so QGraphicsPixmapItems is not visible.
setup.py:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(
options = {'py2exe': {'bundle_files': 1}},
description = "",
name = "name",
windows = ["mainwindow.py"],
zipfile=None,
)

You should be able to convince py2exe to include the dll by using:
setup(
# other options,
data_files=[('imageformats', 'qjpeg4.dll'),
#other options
)
For future reference, data_files should look like this (afaik):
data_files = [ (dir1, [file1, file2, ...]), (dir2, [file3, file4, ...]), ...]
EDIT 1: You could try using a directory structure like this (source):
yourapp.exe
[qt.conf] (optional? see lower down)
plugins/
imageformats/
qjpeg4.dll
And if that doesn't work, here suggests using a qt.conf file that looks like this:
[Paths]
Plugins = <directory containing the imageformats directory>
Which apparently should work fine so long as the core dll QtCore4.dll has been included correctly (as it needs this .dll to interpret your qt.conf file).