cx-Freeze 6.14.5

Create standalone executables from Python scripts

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cx_Freeze creates standalone executables from Python scripts, with the same performance, is cross-platform and should work on any platform that Python itself works on.

Installation

In a virtual environment, install by issuing the command:

pip install --upgrade cx_Freeze

To install the latest development build:

pip install --pre --extra-index-url https://marcelotduarte.github.io/packages/ cx_Freeze

Please check the installation for more information and how to install in others environment such as pipenv, conda-forge, etc.

Documentation

The official documentation is available here.

If you need help you can also ask on the discussion channel.

Highlights of Version 6.14:

• Support Python 3.11
• Binary wheels (x86_64 and aarch64) for musllinux
• Maintain Windows base executables on git (install from sources without C compiler)
• Improved documentation
• New hooks: charset_normalizer, shapely, sklearn, pytorch
• Improved hooks: scipy, sqlite3
• Bug fixes and improvements

Highlights of Version 6.2 up to 6.13:

• Binary wheels (x86_64 and aarch64) for manylinux and macOS (including Apple Silicon)
• New or improved hooks, especially matplotlib, numpy, PyQt5, PyQt6, PySide2, PySide6 and Tkinter
• Support Application Manifests in Windows: manifest and uac-admin
• Complete integration to setuptools instead of distutils
• New dependency resolver on Windows
• Support for pathlib.Path
• New ModuleFinder engine uses importlib.machinery
• Refactored Freezer
• New support for package metadata improving Module and new DitributionCache
• Enhanced support for Python 3.8 to 3.10, including MSYS2 and conda-forge distributions
• Improvements for multiprocessing
• Optimizations in detection and distribution of libraries
• Code modernization
• Various bug fixes.

License

cx_Freeze uses a license derived from the Python Software Foundation License. You can read the cx_Freeze license in the documentation or in the source repository.