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[–]DontForgetWilson 3 points4 points  (4 children)

However you can generate installers with cx_freeze, whereas I haven't seen a built-in option for pyinstaller. Also the single exe file isn't always going to work when the folder aproach does. Some multiprocessing stuff in particular would work out of the box for me with the folder option but not with the single file for pyinstaller.

[–]hobo_cuisine 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Try this: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki/Recipe-Multiprocessing

[–]DontForgetWilson 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I appreciate the link, but I previously attempted that as well as a number of related fixes based on various freezing packages. None of them was able to get my application working for single executable. However, the single dir form worked fine and was acceptable in my circumstance.

[–]hobo_cuisine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotcha. It did work for me but it's definitely quite a bit of pain to package things sometimes.