cx_Freeze - Preventing including unneeded packages

Question

I have coded a tiny python program using PyQt4. Now, I want to use cx_Freeze to create a standalone application. Everything works fine - cx_Freeze includes automatically all nec

Answer 1

This is how I optimized my executable to the minimum file size

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
import subprocess
import sys


NAME = 'EXE NAME'
VERSION = '1.0'
PACKAGES = ['pygame', ('import_name', 'package_name')]
# if names are same just have a string not a tuple
installed_packages = subprocess.check_output([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'freeze']).decode('utf-8')
installed_packages = installed_packages.split('\r\n')
EXCLUDES = {pkg.split('==')[0] for pkg in installed_packages if pkg != ''}
EXCLUDES.add('tkinter')
for pkg in PACKAGES:
    if type(pkg) == str: EXCLUDES.remove(pkg)
    else: EXCLUDES.remove(pkg[1])


executables = [Executable('main.py', base='Win32GUI', icon='Resources/Jungle Climb Icon.ico', targetName=NAME)]

setup(
    name=NAME,
    version=VERSION,
    description=f'{NAME} Copyright 2019 AUTHOR',
    options={'build_exe': {'packages': [pkg for pkg in PACKAGES if type(pkg) == str else pkg[0]],
                           'include_files': ['FOLDER'],
                           'excludes': EXCLUDES,
                           'optimize': 2}},
    executables=executables)