Question

I’ve got some very basic code which works, and I want to turn it into an exe.

Since I’m using Python 3 because it seems so much cleaner than other Python editions, I’ve not been able to use Py2Exe, so I installed cxfreeze instead.

Once I run cxfreeze with the following command:

cxfreeze "C:\Users\pc user\Documents\Python\First project\Main.py"

It says something about the directory/file not existing. That’s about as in-depth as it goes. The exact error is something like “Could not find the path specified”

cxfreeze itself is ‘detected’ by cmd because I don’t get a non-recognised error when I just run “cxfreeze”. Both cxfreeze and python are on my PATH environment variable.

Naturally I’ve triple-checked the directory and it is correct.

I’ve tried variations of this command, including

python cxfreeze "C:\Users\pc user\Documents\Python\First project\Main.py"
cxfreeze C:\Users\pc user\Documents\Python\First project\Main.py
python cxfreeze C:\Users\pc user\Documents\Python\First project\Main.py

Can anyone bring light to this situation?

Answer 1

• Get cxfreeze binary. I got mine from here. The file is
  cx_Freeze-4.2.3.win-amd64-py3.2.‌exe (my PC is win7 64-bit with 64b Python).
• Install it on Python 3.2. A file cxfreeze.bat is created in
  C:\Python32\Scripts.

• Open the .bat file. Change the contents:

  @echo off
X:\Python32\python.exe X:\Python32\Scripts\cxfreeze %*

  with

  @echo off
C:\Python32\python.exe C:\Python32\Scripts\cxfreeze %*

  or equivalent for your particular path

• Open your cmd console and change your directory to
  C:\Python32\Scripts (I have Python 2.6 as default so that
  Python32/Scripts is not in the path. Whatever your case this is the
  safer method)
• Execute the cxfreeze.bat file as shown:

,

Microsoft Windows [Versión 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos.

C:\>cd c:\Python32\Scripts

c:\Python32\Scripts>cxfreeze.bat "C:\Users\pc user\Documents\First project\Main.py"
copying C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\bases\Console.exe -> c:\Python32\Scripts\d
ist\Main.exe
copying C:\Windows\system32\python32.dll -> c:\Python32\Scripts\dist\python32.dll
...............................................
................................................. 
m zipimport
m zlib

copying C:\Python32\DLLs\bz2.pyd -> c:\Python32\Scripts\dist\bz2.pyd
copying C:\Python32\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd -> c:\Python32\Scripts\dist\unicodedata.pyd

c:\Python32\Scripts>

• A dist folder is created in C:\Python32\Scripts\ that includes your
  Main.exe file