Tutorial Setup and Build

This is basic steps if you have nothing installed, of course if you have any of the parts, just skip it.

Setup

Install Python

  • Download and install Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows

  • Select one of Windows x86-64 web-based installer (64 bits Python, recommended) or x86 executable (32 bits Python) installer.

  • Verify it’s working using command python --version.

Install Nuitka

  • python -m pip install Nuitka

  • Verify using command python -m nuitka --version

Write some code and test

Create a folder for the Python code

  • mkdir HelloWorld

  • make a python file named hello.py

def talk(message):
    return "Talk " + message


def main():
    print(talk("Hello World"))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Test your program

Do as you normally would. Running Nuitka on code that works incorrectly is not easier to debug.

python hello.py

Build it using

python -m nuitka hello.py

Note

This will prompt you to download a C caching tool (to speed up repeated compilation of generated C code) and a MinGW64 based C compiler, unless you have a suitable MSVC installed. Say yes to both those questions.

Run it

Execute the hello.exe created near hello.py.

Distribute

To distribute, build with --mode=standalone option, which will not output a single executable, but a whole folder. Copy the resulting hello.dist folder to the other machine and run it.

You may also try --onefile which does create a single file, but make sure that the mere standalone is working, before turning to it, as it will make the debugging only harder, e.g. in case of missing data files.