cx_Freeze Creates standalone executables from Python scripts with the same performance as the original script.

It is cross-platform and should work on any platform that Python runs on.

Installation

Choose the Python package manager according to your system. See how the installation works with the most common ones, which are pip and conda.

To install the latest version of cx_Freeze using pip into a virtual environment:

pip install --upgrade cx_Freeze

To install the latest development build:

pip uninstall cx_Freeze
pip install --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ cx_Freeze --pre --no-cache

Installing cx_freeze from the conda-forge channel can be achieved with the command:

conda install conda-forge::cx_freeze

NOTE

For more information, please check the installation.

IMPORTANT

If you are creating "service" standalone executables, see this readme.

Changelog

If you need help you can also ask on the discussion channel.

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.