I used Pyinstaller to create an exe and the file works well when running inside the dist folder. However when I make a copy of it and run it in a different directory, it doesn't start up. I need to run the exe on another PC... should I make a zip file of the entire folder and distribute the zip? If anyone could help, it'd be appreciated!
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The dist folder contains all of your programs dependencies, yes. You'll have to distribute everything there to any computer that you expect to run your application.
Alternatively, you can use --one-file as was mentioned in the comments. Use caution with that though, it'll produce a single file that's actually a self-extracting archive that puts your dist directory in a temporary location, runs your app, then cleans itself up. That can be a large amount of start-up and disk churn overhead for a simple script.