cxfreeze script

The cxfreeze script is included with other Python scripts. On Windows and the Mac this is in the Scripts subdirectory of your Python installation whereas on Unix platforms this in the bin directory of the prefix where Python is installed.

Assuming you have a script called hello.py which you want to turn into an executable, this can be accomplished by this command:

cxfreeze hello.py --target-dir dist

Further customization can be done using the following options:

--version

show version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-O

optimize generated bytecode as per PYTHONOPTIMIZE; use -OO in order to remove doc strings

-c, --compress

compress byte code in zip files

-s, --silent

suppress all output except warnings and errors

--base-name=NAME

file on which to base the target file; if the name of the file is not an absolute file name, the subdirectory bases (rooted in the directory in which the freezer is found) will be searched for a file matching the name

--init-script=NAME

script which will be executed upon startup; if the name of the file is not an absolute file name, the subdirectory initscripts (rooted in the directory in which the cx_Freeze package is found) will be searched for a file matching the name

--target-dir=DIR, --install-dir=DIR

The directory in which to place the target file and any dependent files

--target-name=NAME

the name of the file to create instead of the base name of the script and the extension of the base binary

--default-path=DIRS

list of paths separated by the standard path separator for the platform which will be used to initialize sys.path prior to running the module finder

--include-path=DIRS

list of paths separated by the standard path separator for the platform which will be used to modify sys.path prior to running the module finder

--replace-paths=DIRECTIVES

replace all the paths in modules found in the given paths with the given replacement string; multiple values are separated by the standard path separator and each value is of the form path=replacement_string; path can be * which means all paths not already specified

--include-modules=NAMES

comma separated list of modules to include

--exclude-modules=NAMES

comma separated list of modules to exclude

--ext-list-file=NAME

name of file in which to place the list of dependent files which were copied into the target directory

-z SPEC, --zip-include=SPEC

name of file to add to the zip file or a specification of the form name=arcname which will specify the archive name to use; multiple –zip-include arguments can be used

--icon=ICON

name of the icon file for the application