pyinstaller

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Installing PyInstaller, even in a virtual environment, will install the pyinstaller executable to $HOME/.local/bin. On Windows, it is installed to another directory within LOCALAPPDATA.

pip install pyinstaller

PyInstaller creates primarily 3 items:

• .spec file, named after the CLI script
• build/ folder, which can be ignored
• dist/ folder, containing the final artifact at dist/cli/cli or dist/cli/cli.exe

Several options are available hidden-import name onefile

pyinstaller script.py --onefile

On Windows, if PyInstaller is run from a virtual environment without necessary modules installed, they may not be available for compilation into the artifact. This does not appear to be an issue with Linux.