I am very new to cx_freeze and I am trying to understand it a bit better, I have this setup.py file:
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
# Dependencies are automatically detected, but it might need fine tuning.
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["os"], "excludes": ["tkinter"]}
setup( name = "guifoo",
version = "0.1",
description = "My GUI application!",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("mypy.py", base="Console", targetName="hello")])
which if I remove the targetName="hello" it works however when I include it, it doesnt. Would anyone know why?
This is my python code:
# encoding: utf8
import math
print "Starting..."
print math.sqrt(16)
input("please press enter to exit...")
After running python setup.py build I get the following errors:
running build
running build_exe
creating directory build\exe.win32-2.7
copying C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\bases\Console.exe -> build\exe.win32-2.7\hello
copying C:\Windows\system32\python27.dll -> build\exe.win32-2.7\python27.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 11, in <module>
executables = [Executable("mypy.py", base="Console", targetName="hello")])
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\dist.py", line 362, in setup
distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 127, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\dist.py", line 232, in run
freezer.Freeze()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 621, in Freeze
self._FreezeExecutable(executable)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 211, in _FreezeExecutable
self._AddVersionResource(exe.targetName)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 150, in _AddVersionResource
stamp(fileName, versionInfo)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32verstamp.py", line 159, in stamp
h = BeginUpdateResource(pathname, 0)
pywintypes.error: (2, 'BeginUpdateResource', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
Adding a .exe at the target name does resolve this
Reposting as an answer:
targetName is the filename of the executable it's going to produce. On Windows, executables must have a .exe extension, so you'll need to set it as 'hello.exe' rather than just 'hello'.