'How to make a single, cross-platform EXE file in Python 3.7
I've tried PyInstaller, but it doesn't support Python 3.7. I'm using Python 3.7 features, so I don't want to downgrade to 3.6. How can I make my program a single-file, cross-platform executable?
Solution 1:[1]
Have you tried to use cx_Freeze? For Python 3.7, you need to apply the bugfix described in this answer by hand to your local cx_Freeze installation until a corrected version has been released.
cx_Freeze itself does not support building a single-file executable, but you can use further tools for this purpose as described here.
Solution 2:[2]
This depends on what you mean by "EXE file".
If you can jam all your source code into a single.py file then that would likely be the closest to a cross platform executable. It would just require having a python interpreter pre-installed on each OS.
If you are referring to a literal .exe executable file that works cross platform; for python programs this is impossible. Python compiles down to machine code in the same way that C and C++ do, which is platform specific. Unlike Java, which runs on a VM, if you wish to compile your python program into a single executable file, then the file will only work on whatever platform it was compiled on.
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