Often when you’re making proper software, especially one’s with GUI’s you’ll end up using additional files like images, text files etc. There’s not much point in having a console window when you have your own GUI to interact with. This will stop the console window from appearing. If however your program is GUI based, you should switch to Window based. If your program is console based, you’ll need this console window to interact with the program. Console Windowīy default Auto-Py-to-Exe will open up a console window when the executable file is run. If you’re experiencing an issue with either setting, try switching to the other. This compiles all the related files and dependencies into many files located within a single directory.Įnabling the one-file instead will combine the files into a single bigger executable. OneFileīy default the setting on Auto-py-to-Exe is set to one-dir. You can directly type in the file path or use the browse option to manually find the file on your computer. The Script Location setting takes a simple file path of the. Instead, we’ll be directly downloading the source code for the library and running it manually.įirst visit the GitHub page for this library and download the code using the download ZIP option as shown in the image below. In this method we won’t actually be installing Auto py to exe using pip or some other means. If you’re having trouble with the 1st method, you can use this one as an alternate. Otherwise you can try navigating to the Python installation yourself using the command prompt.
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If you haven’t done this step already, you can learn how to do so from this Python installation guide.
This will automatically open up the interface for Auto-py-to-exe.įor this to work, you might have to have the file path of the Python exe added to Path.
Next you just have to type in auto-py-to-exe into the command prompt.
You can use other package installers besides pip as well. This method involves using the pip to install the library using the pip install auto-py-to-exe command in the command prompt. There are two different methods through which we may avail Auto-Py-to-Exe’s features.