PyInstaller - A useful to create Windows executable writting by Python.

Update： 2022/6/23

It's painful when we want to distribute our python tools to other environment, we cannot make sure the Python version is the same with our machine, and the dependencies are also need to be installed in order to run perfectly, the following are several useful commands when creating Windows executable.

Basic command:

pyinstaller -F .\app.py
It will generate an executable called app.exe

Want to append data?:

pyinstaller -F .\app.py --add-data ";" If you want to append your data to the binary, add --add-data to the parameter and:
* is the source path in your current project. * is the path where it will extract to.

Issues of installing on Ubuntu 18.04

You might get the warning of zlib-dev is not installed when doing pip3 install pyinstaller, type the command below to install the necessary package:

sudo apt install zlib1g-dev

Once pyinstall was installed, you'll get pyinstall command not found if you try to type pyinstaller in the console, the default installation path is ~/.local/bin/pyinstaller, you can create a symbolic link by:

sudo ln -s ~/.local/bin/pyinstaller /usr/bin/pyinstaller