I am using python 3.5.1 and the unofficial cx_freeze 5.0 build available from here. I am trying to create an executable version of a python project using tkinter and sympy that I've been working on. I used cxfreeze-quickstart to create a setup.py file for the program, and in terms of building what at least seems to be a valid executable, it works without throwing any errors. However, when I try to run the executable, nothing happens. I know similar questions have been asked on here and I've looked at and tried to understand every one I've found, but none of the solutions have worked for me. I don't understand what's going on, and any help would be appreciated. Code below:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need
# fine tuning.
buildOptions = dict(packages = [], excludes = [])
import sys
base = 'Win32GUI' if sys.platform=='win32' else None
executables = [
Executable('c:\\users\\joe\\pycharmprojects\\physics2-0\\physics2-0.py', base=base,
targetName = 'c:\\users\\joe\\pycharmprojects\\physics2-0\\physics.exe')
]
setup(name='physics solver',
version = '0.1',
description = 'alpha physics solver',
options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
executables = executables)
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE: I am now attempting to write the setup.py script myself according to the template provided in the docs, although any help would still be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE 2: I wrote my own setup.py according to the template provided in the docs, and put it in the same folder as the script I want to freeze, something I hadn't realized I needed to do. I ran python setup.py build in command line, and it created the build subdirectory with the exe and DLLs. However, now when I try and run the exe, an error message pops up that says ImportError: DLL load failed. The specified module could not be found. in reference to tkinter. The code for the 2nd setup.py is below.
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need fine tuning.
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["tkinter", "sympy", "_tkinter"], "excludes": []}
# GUI applications require a different base on Windows (the default is for a
# console application).
base = None
if sys.platform == 'win32':
base = "Win32GUI"
setup( name = "physics solver",
version = "0.1",
description = "a basic physics solver",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("Physics2-0.py", base=base)])
Below are the first 4 lines of physics2-0.py. The line brought into question by the error message is line 1.
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
from sympy import Symbol
from sympy.solvers import solve
UPDATE 3: Someone please help me out here. I can't figure this out. I've even done a clean re-install of python at this point, just to be sure I didn't accidentally mess something up at some point, and it's still giving me the same error message.
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I am having trouble getting cx-freeze to make my executable, which makes heavy use of tkinter. My setup file code is as follows:
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
build_exe_options = {"packages":["tkinter"]}
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
setup(
name = "distthis",
version = "0.01",
description = "Report Generator",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("distthis.py", base=base)]
)
When I try to build this from the command line (in the same directory) I can open the program, but it won't open a filedialog. I think the problem may be with tkinter. Can anybody help?
Ok I found the answer here: Keep getting a 'filedialog' error after creating executable with cx_Freeze
Following the advice at the bottom of the page I changed the tkinter module imports to explicit ones and the problem was gone.
If anybody knows why this strange behaviour happens I would love to know!
I'm trying to create a binary on Linux (Manjaro Linux, x86_64, python 3.4).
My app is a GUI software, written with PyQt.
Here is my setup.py:
import sys
import os
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# GUI applications require a different base on Windows (the default is for a
# console application).
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
my_data_files = ["./images/", "./journals/", "./config/"]
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need fine tuning.
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os"],
"excludes": [
"tkinter"
],
'includes': [
'sip',
'PyQt4.QtCore',
'PyQt4.QtGui',
'PyQt4.QtNetwork',
'PyQt4.QtSql',
'scipy.sparse.csgraph._validation',
'sklearn.utils.sparsetools._graph_validation',
'scipy.special._ufuncs_cxx'
],
'include_files': my_data_files
}
setup(name = "guifoo",
version = "0.1",
description = "My GUI application!",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("gui.py", base=base)])
For now, I'm just starting. The "includes" part in the options is what I used when I compiled my binary with py2exe (it worked, but I want a unique tool to compile for all the platforms).
When I start the compilation with
python setup.py build
everything seems to work fine, but when I try to start the binary, I have this exception:
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/djipey/Desktop/test/build/exe.linux-x86_64-3.4/library.zip/text_unidecode/data.bin'
So I assume I have a problem with the module text_unidecode, but I can't really identify what the problem is.
Could you give me a hand please ?
EDIT:
Ok, sorry for the lack of precision, I didn't copy/paste the whole error message:
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/text_unidecode/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
with open(_data_path, 'rb') as f:
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/djipey/Desktop/test/build/exe.linux-x86_64-3.4/library.zip/text_unidecode/data.bin'
I think the issue can come from text_unidecode, but I don't know why. I installed it without any problem on my computer.
https://github.com/kmike/text-unidecode/blob/master/src/text_unidecode/init.py
EDIT 2:
If I integrate the code of text-unidecode (it is basically a single function) in my own code, it works. I think I know why I have this issue. In text-unidecode, there is a file called "data.bin" which contains data used by the function of text-unidecode. It is a part of the library, but it is not added to library.zip when I use cx_freeze. So text-unidecode can't work.
Is there an elegant way to solve this with cx_freeze ? Like an option, to add data files to library.zip ?
I want to make a self-contained .exe file.
I have managed to use cx_Freeze to build one that works on my machine, but it is throwing an error about needing the .dlls when I sent it to someone. I read a few of the similar questions, which is how I ended up including packages in the build options.
I suspect that once I get past this particular problem, I will end up needing to include other stuff in the .exe....any help getting around that pitfall is appreciated! The end user needs to be able to only use the .exe and not have to install other files.
Here is my current setup.py:
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
base = None
if sys.platform == 'win32':
base = 'Win32GUI'
build_options = {"includes" : [ "re", "atexit"], "packages": ["PyQt4.QtCore", "PyQt4.QtGui"]}
setup( name = "Hex Script Combination",
version = "0.1",
description = "Contact (info) with questions",
options = {"build_exe" : build_options},
executables = [Executable("Project.py", base=base)])
ETA:
I tried IExpress, and I'm running into this error:
(Picture uploaded but for some reason, neither picture in this post is showing)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 26, in <module>
code = importer.get_code(moduleName)
ZipImportError: can't find module 'projec~1__main__'
I did NOT find a way to do exactly what I wanted. I did, however, discover that I was getting an installer I wasn't aware of for distribution that did install everything that was in my exe directory.
File path was ~\dist, and it contained only an .msi file. Launching it installed everything that was in ~\build\exe.win32-2.7
I choose to try using cx_freeze which converts my simple python 3.x keylogger to an exe. I choose cx_freeze because py2exe is only python 2.x I am compiling my code using this setup.py script.
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need
# fine tuning.
buildOptions = dict(packages = [], excludes = [])
base = 'Console'
executables = [
Executable('logger.py', base=base, targetName = 'logger.exe')
]
setup(name='PyLogger',
version = '0.1',
description = 'A Simple Keylogger',
options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
executables = executables)
and I when I compile my code which is
try:
import pythoncom
except ImportError:
input("Import Error, pywin32 is not installed")
try:
import pyHook
except ImportError:
input("Import Error, pyHook is not installed")
I get the import error saying both pywin32 and pyHook is not installed. How do you import external modules into cx_freeze.
EDIT - I have tried changing the setup.py to add the includes option but it made no difference.
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need
# fine tuning.
buildOptions = dict(packages = ['pyHook','pythoncom'],includes = ['pyHook','pythoncom'], excludes = [])
base = 'Console'
executables = [
Executable('logger.py', base=base, targetName = 'logger.exe')
]
setup(name='PyLogger',
version = '0.1',
description = 'A Simple Keylogger',
options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
executables = executables)
Find the .pyd file of the external module. Copy and paste that into the build file. So, for example, if it was looking for _cpyHook (I had the same problem as you and it said that module was missing), go to C:\Python33\Lib\site-packages\pyHook and copy and paste the file into C:\Python33\build\exe.win-amd64-3.3.
Try listing the missing packages explicitly in the build options like so:
buildOptions = dict(packages = ['pyHook', 'pywin32'], excludes = [])
And see the accepted answer to this question if you need to include other (non-Python) files in your build.
EDIT: I finally had time to look at this a little more, and it seems to be a tricky problem. I'll keeping poking at it as time permits, but I thought I'd post my findings in case they're useful to the OP. I suspect that the pyHook module doesn't play nice when 'frozen', i.e., when it's included in a zip file. If I use this setup.py:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
buildOptions = dict(
includes=['pythoncom'],
packages=['pyHook']
)
executables = [
Executable('logger.py', base='Console', targetName = 'logger.exe')
]
setup(
name='PyLogger',
version = '0.1',
description = 'A Simple Keylogger',
options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
executables = executables
)
the generated logger.exe does not—initially, at least—run correctly, and generates the error:
Import Error, pyHook is not installed
However, if I run the following command from the directory containing the EXE:
unzip library.zip
and re-run logger.exe, then everything seems to work fine. It's just not able to load pyHook from the library.zip file that cx_Freeze generates. I've seen this kind of problem before in the past, and worked around it by munging sys.path in my top-level script prior to loading any modules. I'll see if I can dig up one of those examples. In the meantime, perhaps this advice will help the OP: try unzipping the zip file and see if it makes a difference. A couple things to note:
I'm not having any problems importing pywin32, only pyHook
I did try setting create_shared_zip=False and include_in_shared_zip=False in the build options, but this just resulted in a file named logger.zip instead of library.zip. (Weird. I can't believe that's not a bug.)
I'm a newbie to cx_Freeze and I need some help. I'm writing an application with python 3.3, pyqt4 and some more libraries (scipy, numpy, matplotlib, dxfwrite). Now I'm trying to freeze the application with cx_Freeze under windows7. I'm using cx_Freeze-4.3.2.win-amd64-py3.3 and the following setup.py for cx_Freeze:
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os"], "excludes": ["tkinter"] }
setup(
name = "Barrel Cam Editor",
version = "0.2.0",
description = "An editor for Barrel Cams",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("barrelcameditor.py", base = "Win32GUI")])
I run the command python setup.py build and it seems to work but when I launch the obtained exe I get an Importerror: DLL load failed.
I really do not know how to solve this problem. any help?
Tnx
PS:
Thank you for your help, it was a problem with scipy.linalg. I switched to numpy.linalg and it seems to work. Now I've another little problem: I was importing a custom package:
from barrelcam import camdata, camdlg, camwidget
but in this way it is not working.
I found a workaround: I moved the files to the barrelcameditor folder and it seems to work, changing the import to
import camdata, camdlg, camwidget
There is a way to keep the original position of files?
Thank you