Standalone executable

Question

I have created a python program with gui using tkinter. In the file there are several calls to external text files. I wanted to make a standalone executable using pyinstaller but the executable formed gives an error which is something of the sort "Script cant be executed" ( I don't remember the exact wordings).

How can I take that whole folder and convert it into a single .exe file?

Answer 1

When you build it, you'll either use something like pyinstaller , cx_Freeze , p2exe and there are many other ...

You can also refer to this video to understand how and what goes on HERE but basically, with most of these converters, you'll have a setup.py file that contains information on how to setup your .py and you'll include your modules in the packages.

A setup.py file would usually look like this:

import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os"], "excludes": ["tkinter"]} 

base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
    base = "Win32GUI"

setup(  name = "somename",
        version = "0.1",
        description = "this is my software",
        options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
        # our package list is included in build options line 3

        executables = [Executable("ourpy_file.py", base=base)])

cx_Freeze Documentation for more details. If we were to include any other files we would use (with cx_Freeze) include_files and our build_exe_options would look like:

build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os", "tkinter"],"include_files" :"<fullpath>"} 
# this is if we were to include os and tkinter and include some other files

Answer 2

At first you need to create a setup.py file . It would be better if you pip install cx_Freezer than an other library like py2exe or pyinstaller .

Copy the DLLs file from from the directory \\Python\\Python36-32\\ to the .py file directory.

Then you write down the following code :

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import sys
import os.path
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
       base = "Win32GUI"

#os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = r'C:\Program Files\Python35-32\tcl\tcl8.6'
#os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = r'C:\Program Files\Python35-32\tcl\tk8.6'
import os
includes = os.listdir("") #Include your main python file with its directory

PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.__file__))
os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'tcl', 'tcl8.6')
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'tcl', 'tk8.6')
setup(name = 'Python_file',
version = "0.1",
description = "Python_file",
options = {'build_exe':{'include_files':includes,'packages':['pygame','tkinter','dill','PIL']}},
executables=[Executable("python_file.py", base= base)])

Open cmd from the setup.py file directory then run Python setup.py .

Answer 3

To solve the error

Failed to execute script ---------- exe name

after compiling with pyinstaller make sure you copy all the files (shouldn't be .py file) you used in script to where you have your exe file. This mostly cause by image files you used in your program so do well to copy that into the folder you have your standalone file then start the exe file again.