Exporting Python 3.5 and Tkinter to EXE or MSI

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I'm using Python 3.5 and would like to export my python code for me to send to others who do not have Python installed. Thing is Pyinstaller doesn't work as I get this error:

CX_Freeze also doesn't work for me either as Tkinter still presents a problem, on running python setup.py build I get:

KeyError: 'TCL_LIBRARY'

I'm getting sick of this to be frank so any help would be appreciated. Here's my imports in my code if it helps

import pdb
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import filedialog
import tkinter.messagebox
from datetime import datetime, date, timedelta

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from xlsxwriter.utility import xl_rowcol_to_cell

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '16 at 17:45

If you are using an older version of cx_Freeze(<5.0), it doesn't have Python35 support. The latest development version has Python35 support. You can install it by

pip install cx-Freeze-win

But you need to have VC++ run-time installed on your system to run this successfully.

Also I've found this GitHub-repo with pre-built binary packages of cx_Freeze 5 for windows platform.

pip install wheel
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sekrause/cx_Freeze-Wheels/master/cx_Freeze-5.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl

That version of cx_Freeze is the one I'm using unfortunately. Doesn't work — King, Nov 10 '16 at 11:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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Well I managed to get it working by downloading Pyinstaller from the website and running the commands in the new folder. I followed the steps in this answer here.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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