bbfreeze 0.93.0

create standalone executables from python scripts

bbfreeze creates standalone executables from python scripts. It’s similar in purpose to the well known py2exe for windows, py2app for OS X, PyInstaller and cx_Freeze (in fact it includes some bits from cx_Freeze and PyInstaller. And it uses the modulegraph package, which is also used by py2app).

It has the following features:

easy installation

bbfreeze can be installed with setuptools’ easy_install command.

zip/egg file import tracking

bbfreeze tracks imports from zip files. Note that calls to setuptools’ pkg_resources.require will be replaced with a dummy implementation. Calls to resource handling functions are not implemented, and freezing packages using these features of pkg_resources will not be possible without further work.

binary dependency tracking

bbfreeze will track binary dependencies and will include DLLs and shared libraries needed by a frozen program.

multiple script freezing

bbfreeze can freeze multiple scripts at once.

python interpreter included

bbfreeze will create an extra executable named ‘py’, which might be used like the python executable itself.

bbfreeze works on windows and UNIX-like operating systems. It currently does not work on OS X. bbfreeze has been tested with python 2.4 and 2.5. bbfreeze will not work with python versions prior to 2.3 as it uses the zipimport feature introduced with python 2.3.