Is it possible to use cx_freeze on a python 3 project using the pip module?

Question

I am writing an installation program for a larger program I am writing, and I am using CxFreeze to convert it to an executable file, however, when I run the .exe file, it crashes with the line "import pip", and brings up (as shown below), so basically my question is: Is it possible to use CxFreeze on an application with pip imported?

Edit: Here are all the files I am using:

setup.py (V1):

from cx_Freeze import *
import os, pip
setup(name=("ARTIST"),
      version = "1",
      description = "ARTIST installation file",
      executables = [Executable("Install ARTIST.py"), Executable("C:\\Python34\\Lib\\site-packages\pip\\__init__.py")],
      )

This brings up the error:

setup.py (V2):

from cx_Freeze import *
import os, pip
setup(name=("ARTIST"),
      version = "1",
      description = "ARTIST installation file",
      executables = [Executable("Install ARTIST.py"],
      options = {"build_exe": {"packages":[pip]}}
      )

This brings up an error in the setup.bat file:

Edit: If anyone wants to look at the website where I am publishing the larger program, here is the link: alaricwhitehead.wix.com/artist

Edit2: this is the error i get when i use py2exe:

Edit3: here is a copy of the code: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uu46iynm8fr8agu/Install%20ARTIST.txt?raw=1

please note: I didn't want to have to post a link to it, but it was too long to post directly.

Answer 1

The are two problems in your setup script. The first problem is that you specified extra modules to include in your frozen application under the packages option of the build_exe command: packages is for specifying which packages of your application you need to include, for the external modules (such as pip ) you need to use includes . The second problem is that you need to pass to includes a list of strings of modules and not the module itself:

setup(
    name=("ARTIST"),
    version="1",
    description="ARTIST installation file",
    options={
        'build_exe': {
            'excludes': [], # list of modules to exclude
            'includes': ['pip'], # list of extra modules to include (from your virtualenv of system path),
            'packages': [], # list of packages to include in the froze executable (from your application)
        },
    },
    executables=[
        Executable(
            script='run.py', # path to the entry point of your application (i.e: run.py)
            targetName='ARTIST.exe', # name of the executable
        )
    ]
)