Give a different name to the executable other than the name of the executable script

Question

I am using the following setup file to create executable using cx_freeze. Is it possible to generate the exe with a different name other than the name of the executable script?

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable 
import xlrd  
buildOptions = dict(                 
                 compressed = True,
                 optimize=2,                 
                 path=sys.path+[".\\uitls", “.\\supported”], 
                 include_files=[“Doc"],                 
                 includes=[“xlrd”, "win32com"],
                 packages=["utils", ”supported"],
                 append_script_to_exe=True,
                 copy_dependent_files=True,
                  ) 
setup(
                 name = "TestExecutable",
                 version = "0.1",
                 options = dict(build_exe = buildOptions),
                           executables = [Executable(script=r".\\codebase\\runner.py",
                           icon=".\\icon.ico",
                           base="Win32GUI")]                
     )  

So now the exe which is created has name runner.exe and i want it to be something different like myexecutable.exe Renaming the executable, ir the script is not working cause the script is further referenced by the package modules.

Answer 1

Try using the targetName option:

executables = [Executable(targetName="myexecutable.exe")]

more recent version use target_name instead, so if you're on the latest cx_Freeze version, instead use

executables = [Executable(target_name="myexecutable.exe")]