cx_Freeze creates standalone executables from Python scripts, with the same performance, is cross-platform and should work on any platform that Python itself works on.
In a virtual environment, install by issuing the command:
pip install --upgrade cx_Freeze
To install the latest development build:
pip install --force --no-cache --pre --extra-index-url https://marcelotduarte.github.io/packages/ cx_Freeze
Please check the installation for more information and how to install in other environments such as pipenv, conda-forge, etc.
The official documentation is available here.
If you need help you can also ask on the discussion channel.
- Improved bdist_dmg
- Add license for msi (bdist_msi)
- Minor improvements in bdist_appimage
- Drop rpm2_mode in bdist_rpm
- Use an optimized mode as default for pip installations of selected packages
- hooks: support numpy 2.0, rasterio, multiprocess (a multiprocessing fork), etc
- Regression fixes, bug fixes and improvements
- Added new option --zip-filename in build_exe
- Bug fixes and improvements
- Added support for pyproject.toml
- Create Linux AppImage format: bdist_appimage
- Create an DEB distribution: bdist_deb
- Improved bdist_mac
- New and updated hooks, including support for QtWebengine on macOS
- Python 3.12 support.
- Improved tests and coverage ( >80% ).
- Bug fixes and improvements
cx_Freeze uses a license derived from the Python Software Foundation License. You can read the cx_Freeze license in the documentation or in the source repository.