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How do I convert my pygame program which has multiple python scripts and images to a exe?

I have 3 python scripts and many images in folders and tmx files which I want to make it as a single .exe . I wasnt able to find how to convert multiple python scripts and folders to single exe. I was only able to find cxfreeze and similar things for a single python script. Please help.
Thanks in advance.

You can add external files to your pyinstaller exe by using add-data. An example I'm using for one of my pygame games:
pyinstaller --onedir --clean --name "MyGame" --icon="images/icon.ico" --add-data "images/*.png:images" --add-data "sounds/*.mp3:sounds" --add-data "sounds/*.wav:sounds" --add-data "fonts/*.ttf:fonts" main.py

Create a setup.py file in cxfreeze. You have to pass multiple pyhton files as list in cxfreeze executables. Refere this thread -
Python cx_Freeze for two or more python files (modules)
For separate files like images, you have to include those files explicitly. Below is an example which worked for me on one of the project -
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
build_exe_options = {'packages': ['os', 'tkinter', 'matplotlib.backends.backend_svg', 'subprocess'],
'namespace_packages': ['mpl_toolkits'],
'include_files':['input3.json', 'SF.xlsx', 'SF logo.ico', 'Operative Temperature.pkl',
'Rect_icon.png', 'Soltissim logo.png', 'SF full logo.jpg', 'IES logo.jpg']}
base = None
if sys.platform == 'win32':
base = 'Win32GUI'
setup ( name = 'Soltissim',
version = '2',
description = 'SF GUI',
options = {'build_exe': build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable('Soltissim.py', base=base, icon='SF logo.ico'),
Executable('SF_English.py', base=base, icon='SF logo.ico'),
Executable('SF_French.py', base=base, icon='SF logo.ico')])
Furhter, if you want to create a build from setup which can be then used in program like inno, use following command in terminal - python setup.py build
If you want to create a simple windows installer directly from setup, use - python setup.py bdist_msi

How to convert a python project into an executable file with all additional scripts?

I know there have been a bunch of questions already asked regarding this but none of them really helped me. Let me explain the whole project scenario so that I provide a better clarity to my problem. The directory structure is somewhat like this shown below:
Project Directory Layout
I need to convert this whole GUI based project (The main file is using Tkinter module to create GUI) into main.exe which I can share with others while making sure that all the additional files work exactly the same way it is working now when I run this main.py via Command Prompt. When I use this command with pyinstaller -
"pyinstaller --onefile --noconsole main.py"
It creates main.exe which shows "Failed to execute script" on running. Please provide me a detailed explanation on what should I do to achieve what I have stated above. Thank you in advance.

pyinstaller uses a few dirty tricks to compress a bunch of files into one
I recommend using cx_Freeze instead along with inno setup installer maker
do pip install cx_Freeze to install that and go here for inno setup
then copy the following into a file named setup.py in the same folder as your project
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
setup(name = "YOUR APP NAME" ,
version = "1.0.0" ,
description = "DESCRIPTION" ,
executables = [Executable("PYTHON FILE", base = "Win32GUI")]
)
lastly run python setup.py build
if you want as onefile download this file here
just edit the file a bit and use inno compiler to make into installer

Suppose our project has the following structure.
MyApp
|-models
| |-login.kv
|-data
| |-words.json
| |-audio.tar.gz
|-fonts
| |-FredokaOne.ttf
|-images
| |-gb.pngsound.png
| |-icon.ico
|-main.py
|-main.kv
|-draw.py
|-image.py
and depends on the following packages:
- kivy
- kivymd
- ffpyplayer
- gtts
First things first is to install cx_Freeze.
pip install cx_Freeze
Copy the following into a file named setup.py in the same folder as your project.
# https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/distutils.html
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
includes = []
# Include your files and folders
includefiles = ['models/','data/','fonts/','images/','main.kv','draw.py','image.py']
# Exclude unnecessary packages
excludes = ['cx_Freeze','pydoc_data','setuptools','distutils','tkinter']
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but some modules need help.
packages = ['kivy','kivymd', 'ffpyplayer','gtts']
base = None
shortcutName = None
shortcutDir = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
shortcutName='My App'
shortcutDir="DesktopFolder"
setup(
name = 'MyApp',
version = '0.1',
description = 'Sample python app',
author = 'your name',
author_email = '',
options = {'build_exe': {
'includes': includes,
'excludes': excludes,
'packages': packages,
'include_files': includefiles}
},
executables = [Executable('main.py',
base = base, # "Console", base, # None
icon='images/icon.ico',
shortcutName = shortcutName,
shortcutDir = shortcutDir)]
)
Lastly run.
python setup.py build
This command will create a subdirectory called build with a further subdirectory starting with the letters exe. and ending with the typical identifier for the platform that distutils uses. This allows for multiple platforms to be built without conflicts.
On Windows, you can build a simple installer containing all the files cx_Freeze includes for your application, by running the setup script as:
python setup.py bdist_msi
Cx_freeze references
Doc
Git Hub

Cannot load mkl_intel_thread.dll on python executable

I'm trying to create an executable python program that runs on windows without python being installed, for this I'm using cx_Freeze. But I get the following error: "Cannot load mkl_intel_thread.dll"
On my PC, which has python installed (miniconda3), I built the executable using cx_Freeze, and when I ran the executable I also would get "Cannot load mkl_intel_thread.dll". I fixed this by going to my python folder, Library\bin, and copied the mkl_intel_thread.dll file to where the executable is placed. The problem is, when moving the whole folder to another PC (without python installed), this error reappears, even though the mkl_intel_thread.dll is in the folder.
File that I want to distribute (plot.py):
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
a = [0, 1, 2]
b = [0, 2, 0]
plt.fill(a, b, 'b')
plt.show()
cx_Freeze setup file (setup.py):
import cx_Freeze
import sys
import matplotlib
import numpy
import os
os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = "C:\\Miniconda3\\tcl\\tcl8.6"
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = "C:\\Miniconda3\\tcl\\tk8.6"
executables = [cx_Freeze.Executable("plot.py")]
build_exe_options = {"includes":['numpy.core._methods',
'numpy.lib.format', 'matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg']}
cx_Freeze.setup(
name = "script",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
version = "0.0",
description = "A basic example",
executables = executables)

EDIT:
Try to copy all files starting with mkl you find under Library\bin or numpy\core into the build folder, as well as libiomp5md.dll, see Python Pyinstaller 3.1 Intel MKL FATAL ERROR: Cannot load mkl_intel_thread.dll and cx_freeze converted GUI-app (tkinter) crashes after pressing plot-Button.
Once you have found out which file(s) need(s) to be manually copied, you can let cx_Freeze include the necessary file(s) by using the include_files list of the build_exe options (see code snippet below). If necessary, you can use a tuple (source, destination) as item in the include_files list to let cx_Freeze copy a file from source to a specific destination into the build directory, see the cx_Freezedocumentation.
I see further potential problems in the setup script you've posted in your question:
include the whole numpy packages using the packages list of the build_exe options, it is easier and maybe safer
it is safer to dynamically find out the location of the TCL/TK DLLs
for cx_Freeze 5.1.1, the TCL/TK DLLs need to be included in a lib subdirectory of the build directory
In summary, try t o use
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')
build_exe_options = {'packages': ['numpy'],
'includes': ['matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg'],
'include_files': [(os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'DLLs', 'tcl86t.dll'),
os.path.join('lib', 'tcl86t.dll')),
(os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'DLLs', 'tk86t.dll'),
os.path.join('lib', 'tk86t.dll'))
# add here further files which need to be included as described in 1.
]}
in your setup script.

A similar issue affects cx_Freeze 6.1 or 6.2: the executable does not launch, either without error message or with
INTEL MKL ERROR: The specified module could not be found. mkl_intel_thread.dll.
Intel MKL FATAL ERROR: Cannot load mkl_intel_thread.dll.
Configuration:
Windows 10
Python 3.8.5 installed from https://www.python.org/
numpy 1.19.1+mkl installed with pip using wheel from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
various python modules installed using pip
This is also observed with Python 3.6.8 or earlier versions of numpy such as e.g. 1.18.4+mkl or 1.19.0+mkl.
I've observed that cx_Freeze includes 3 DLLs mkl_rt.dll, python38.dll, and vcruntime140.dll in the subdirectory lib\numpy\core of the build directory, whereas the original installation does not contain any DLL in the subdirectory site-packages\numpy\core (all DLLs are in site-packages\numpy\DLLs). If I manually remove mkl_rt.dll from the subdirectory lib\numpy\core of the build directory after building the application with cx_Freeze, the issue disappears and the application works.
This solution can be implemented by adding the following code at the end of the setup.py script:
numpy_core_dir = os.path.join(dist_dir, 'lib', 'numpy', 'core')
for file_name in os.listdir(numpy_core_dir):
if file_name.lower().endswith('.dll'):
file_path = os.path.join(numpy_core_dir, file_name)
os.remove(file_path)
where dist_dir is the build directory generated by cx_Freeze (passed to the build_exe option).

Just copy these four files in cx_freeze generated build folder
mkl_core.dll
mkl_def.dll
mkl_intel_thread.dll
mkl_mc3.dll

Manage to find a solution to this by downgrading numpy==1.18.2 from numpy==1.19.1 when using cx_Freeze==6.5.3.

When using cx_Freeze and tkinter I get: "DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found." (Python 3.5.3)

When using cx_Freeze and Tkinter, I am given the message:
File "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured for Tk
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
Some things to note:
I want to use Python 3+ (Currently using 3.5.3, 32-bit). Don't really care about a specific version, whatever works.
My project has multiple files I need to compile. As far as I can tell, that leaves me with cx_Freeze or Nuitka. Nuitka had problems of its own.
I am using Windows 10 Home Edition, 64-bit
Here is my current setup.py:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import sys
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["files", "tools"]}
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
setup(name="Name",
version="1.0",
description="Description",
options={"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables=[Executable("main.py", base=base)],
package_dir={'': ''},
)
I have tried many solutions from all corners of the internet. Including but not limited to:
Multiple versions of python (and the corresponding cx_Freeze/Tkinter versions)
Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions
Replacing Tkinter with easygui (apparently easygui needs Tkinter to work)
Checking the PATH variables
Restarting my computer (Don't know what I expected)
Uninstalling other versions of python and repairing the correct version
Placing the following in my compile bat file (Definetly the correct paths):
set TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\tcl\tcl8.6
set TK_LIBRARY=C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\tcl\tk8.6
Placing the following in my setup.py:
options={"build_exe": {"includes": ["tkinter"]}}
Along with:
include_files = [r"C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\DLLs\tcl86t.dll",\
r"C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\DLLs\tk86t.dll"]
(And yes, those were included in setup() in one way or another)
Thanks for any help, it's greatly appreciated. And yes, I have looked at just about every solution to this problem on this site. Hoping someone could help me find yet another solution since my problem seems to be persistent.

Found a solution!
I had to copy the tk86t.dll and tcl86t.dll files from my python directory's DLLs folder into the build folder with the main.py I was trying to compile.
This, in conjunction with having
set TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\tcl\tcl8.6
set TK_LIBRARY=C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\tcl\tk8.6
at the top of my compile.bat, and including
"include_files": ["tcl86t.dll", "tk86t.dll"]
in my build_exe_options in setup.py, seems to have done the trick.
Here is my current setup.py:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import sys
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["files", "tools"], "include_files": ["tcl86t.dll", "tk86t.dll"]}
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
setup(name="Name",
version="1.0",
description="Description",
options={"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables=[Executable("main.py", base=base)],
package_dir={'': ''},
)
And here is my compile.bat (updated to show all steps):
#echo off
set TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\tcl\tcl8.6
set TK_LIBRARY=C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\tcl\tk8.6
RD /S /Q "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\Desktop\PythonProjectCompiled\bin"
mkdir "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\Desktop\PythonProjectCompiled\bin"
xcopy /s "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\DLLs\tcl86t.dll" "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\Desktop\PythonProjectCompiled\bin\tcl86t.dll"
xcopy /s "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\DLLs\tk86t.dll" "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\Desktop\PythonProjectCompiled\bin\tk86t.dll"
cd "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\Desktop\PythonProject\"
cxfreeze main.py --target-dir "C:\Users\VergilTheHuragok\Desktop\PythonProjectCompiled\bin" --target-name "launch.exe"
pause
I found this solution here.

to solve this problem just copy the files
1.tcl86t.dll
2.tk86t.dll
from this path C:\Users\h280126\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\DLLs
and placed in our .exe path
C:\Users\h280126\PycharmProjects\my_tool\build\exe.win32-3.6
it is working fine :)

After fixing these issues cx_freeze was still unable to import the dependencies of pandas (namely numpy). To fix this I literally copied and pasted the entire folders into the directory of the .py file I was trying to compile. The executable needs to be in the same directory (so it isn't necessarily stand-alone) but it runs with pandas and numpy.

How to convert Python 3 script into Windows exe file using cx_Freeze

I am trying to do something, which given Python's prevalence, should be easy: convert my .py script into a Windows .exe file.
I have spent countless hours with pyinstaller and p2exe, but they don't work for me. Therefore I am trying to use cx_Freeze. My script is called sebzo.py and associated with it, in the folder wavFiles, are several .wav files.
I downloaded cx_Freeze by using Anaconda and the command:
conda install -c pyzo cx_freeze=5.0 to re-download cx_Freeze. cx_Freeze and related files ended up in c: Users\Owen Walker\Lib\site-packages.
Then I wrote a setup.py file as advised by various websites and placed sebzo.py, setup.py, and the subfolder wavFiles--in the folder: Users\Owen Walker\Lib\site-packages.
Then on the Windows 10 command line, in c: Users\Owen Walker\Lib\site-packages, I entered the command: "python setup.py build", and got the error: "File "setup.py", line 2 in from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable ImportError: cannot import name 'setup'"
The setup.py file reads:
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
setup(
name = "sebzo",
version = "0.1",
description = "arithmetic practice program",
executables = [Executable("sebzo.py")],
)
I don't know what the error means or how to fix it.