Compile multiple .py files to windows executable (.exe)
I have a relatively small python program that I want to convert to a windows executable. It was originally written with Pycharm and runs normally in it.
It consists of two .py files that I have written and some libraries (all installed from pip).
I am trying to do my job with cx_Freeze but not with much success. My setup.py is this:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import os.path
PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.__file__))
os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'tcl', 'tcl8.6')
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'tcl', 'tk8.6')
setup(name="MFS-printer",
version='1.0.0',
description='A parser for the log file from the terminal exit of the mfs system',
options={"build_exe": {"packages": ["file_read_backwards", "Pil", "watchdog", "win32print", "win32ui", "tkinter", "log_parser"],
"include_files": ["Roboto-Bold.ttf", "mfs_robot(2).png", os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'DLLs', 'tk86t.dll'), os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'DLLs', 'tcl86t.dll'),]
}
},
executables = [Executable("main.py"), Executable("log_parser.py")], requires=['watchdog']
)
After running python setup.py build to create the windows application no errors exist but when I try to run the application it crashes at start with this error:
My imports from those two files (main.py and log_parser.py) are the folowing:
main.py:
import os,time
import datetime
import log_parser
import win32print
from tkinter import filedialog
from tkinter import *
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
from pathlib import Path
log_parser.py
import os
import win32print
import win32ui
from file_read_backwards import FileReadBackwards
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont, ImageWin
There is probably something wrong with the setup.py but I can't find what. Any help would be appreciated.
It seems that for now cx_Freeze does not really support Python3.7 for Windows 64bit (until this date). This it the Github issue that refers to it. I hope by the time someone else searches for it, it will be fixed!