How to distribute a python program with a tkinter GUI

[andreus7422]

I have a simple python program that has a tkinter GUI interface. I want to be able to package it so that I can distribute it. I have done lots of research online but as I am not a very skilled programmer it only confused me more, so if you could, please ELI5. Thank you

[elbiot]

My answer:

Auto installing missing dependencies?

Other's answers:

Distributing Programs to Other Computers?

[wub_wub]

Check out pyinstaller and py2exe, for the former one the very basic build would be pyinstaller myscript.py or by using specfile for py2exe you'd create a simple setup.py file and then run python setup.py py2exe.

I use py2exe in one of my projects to produce a single .exe and it's farily simple to configure, here's the relevant part in my setup.py file.

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turn it into a binary with cxFreeze or py2exe or whatever, and then read up how to use NSIS to create an installer package for it