PyInstaller Alternatives

PyInstaller is described as 'Program that freezes (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solard AIX' and is an app in the development category. There are five alternatives to PyInstaller for Windows, Linux and Mac. The best PyInstaller alternative is nuitka, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PyInstaller are cx_Freeze, py2exe, Shed Skin and bbfreeze.

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  1. nuitka icon
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    Nuitka is a Python compiler.

    It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5.

    You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • nuitka is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to PyInstaller.

    • nuitka is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PyInstaller.

    • nuitka is Free and Open SourcePyInstaller is also Free and Open Source
  2. cx_Freeze icon
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    cx_Freeze is a set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables in much the same way that py2exe and py2app do. Unlike these two tools, cx_Freeze is cross platform and should work on any platform that Python itself works on. It requires Python 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3.  5 likes
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    A distutils extension to create standalone Windows programs from Python scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Shed Skin icon
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    Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. bbfreeze icon
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    bbfreeze creates stand-alone executables from python scripts. It's similar in purpose to the well known py2exe for windows, py2app for OS X, PyInstaller and cx_Freeze (in fact ancient versions were based on cx_Freeze.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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