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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building executables

At this point, we can build an executable by running the following command line:

python3 cxsetup.py build

build runs all steps up to build_exe, leaving you with the built code in a platform-specific directory under ./build. You can inspect this directory to make sure files are being copied over and created properly. cx_Freeze should have created a binary executable file called abq, which will launch your application when run. Note, however, that all files in this directory must be present for the program to run; cx_Freeze does not support the creation of single-file standalone executables.

For Linux and BSD, the built package is ready to go and can be zipped up and distributed as is. For Windows and macOS, we're going ...

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