Python - Cxfreeze Keeps Saying File/directory Non-existant

I've got some very basic code which works, and I want to turn it into an exe. Since I'm using Python 3 because it seems so much cleaner than other Python editions, I've not been ab

Solution 1:

• Get cxfreeze binary. I got mine from here. The file is cx_Freeze-4.2.3.win-amd64-py3.2.‌exe (my PC is win7 64-bit with 64b Python).
• Install it on Python 3.2. A file cxfreeze.bat is created in C:\Python32\Scripts.

• Open the .bat file. Change the contents:

  @echo offX:\Python32\python.exe X:\Python32\Scripts\cxfreeze %*

  with

  @echo offC:\Python32\python.exe C:\Python32\Scripts\cxfreeze %*

  or equivalent for your particular path

• Open your cmd console and change your directory to C:\Python32\Scripts (I have Python 2.6 as default so that Python32/Scripts is not in the path. Whatever your case this is the safer method)
• Execute the cxfreeze.bat file as shown:

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Microsoft Windows [Versión 6.1.7601]
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C:\>cd c:\Python32\Scripts

c:\Python32\Scripts>cxfreeze.bat "C:\Users\pc user\Documents\First project\Main.py"
copying C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\bases\Console.exe ->c:\Python32\Scripts\d
ist\Main.exe
copying C:\Windows\system32\python32.dll ->c:\Python32\Scripts\dist\python32.dll
...............................................
................................................. 
m zipimport
m zlib

copying C:\Python32\DLLs\bz2.pyd ->c:\Python32\Scripts\dist\bz2.pyd
copying C:\Python32\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd ->c:\Python32\Scripts\dist\unicodedata.pyd

c:\Python32\Scripts>

• A dist folder is created in C:\Python32\Scripts\ that includes your Main.exe file

Solution 2:

I had a similar issue with cxfreeze on the following setup:

• Win7 64-bit OS
• 64-bit python 2.7.3 (from python.org)
• cxfreeze 4.3 for Win 64-bit + Python 2.7 (from http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/)

After some investigation it turns out that all of the scripts that were installed by the cxfreeze package into my 'c:\python27\Scripts' directory (cxfreeze, cxfreeze.bat, cxfreeze-quickstart, cxfreeze-quickstart.bat) had bad references to my python base path.

Inside those scripts there were references to a base path of 'c:\python\32-bit\2.7' and 'c:\python\64-bit\2.7'. I edited the scripts and fixed the paths(changed the base path to 'c:\python27'), and that fixed the problems. Check the python base install path on your system.

Not sure why these paths were wrong. I installed Python from the official python.org site (as alluded to by cxfreeze docs) and I did not modify the install location.