cx_freeze's Introduction

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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 6.11:

Binary wheels for manylinux and macOS (including Apple Silicon)
Complete integration to use setuptools instead of distutils
More code modernization
Bug fixes and improvements

Highlights of Version 6.2 up to 6.10:

Support Application Manifests in Windows: manifest and uac-admin
New dependency resolver on Windows
Support for pathlib.Path
New or improved hooks, with emphasis on matplotlib, numpy, PyQt5 and PySide2
New ModuleFinder engine uses importlib.machinery
Refactored Freezer
New support for package metadata improving Module and new DitributionCache
Enhanced support for Python 3.8 and Python 3.9, including MSYS2 and Anaconda distributions
Improvements for multiprocessing
Optimizations in detection and distribution of libraries
Integrated to setuptools and importlib-metadata
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.

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