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.
- Support for pathlib.Path
- New or improved hooks, with emphasis on matplotlib, numpy, PyQt5 and PySide2
- New ModuleFinder engine uses importlib.machinery
- Refactored Freezer
- New support for package metadata improving Module and new DitributionCache
- Enhanced support for Python 3.8 and Python 3.9, including MSYS2 and Anaconda distributions
- Improvements for multiprocessing
- Optimizations in detection and distribution of libraries
- Integrated to setuptools and importlib-metadata
- Code modernization
- Various bug fixes.
In a virtual environment, install by issuing the command:
pip install --upgrade cx_Freeze
To install beta versions:
pip install --upgrade cx_Freeze --pre
Please check the installation in documentation for requirements.
The official documentation is available here.
If you need help you can also ask on the discussion channel: https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze/discussions
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.