Building a Kivy standalone executable with Nuitka

[Josh C.]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if anyone has had success by building a Python-Kivy standalone executable application with Nuitka.

I tried to follow this guide, without success. And honestly, never using Nuitka or any similar tool before, I didn't really know what I was doing.

My application has a couple of .py and a couple of .kv resource files, and also uses a few Python standard library modules.

I will be very grateful if someone who has had success with building an executable with Nuitka shares the procedure or any sort of helpful tips.

Thank you and best regards,

Josh C

[QuanTech]

If you are targeting Windows, you can try PyInstaller.

https://kivy.org/doc/stable/guide/packaging-windows.html

[Josh C.]

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, I am targeting Windows. I have also considered PyInstaller.

But Nuitka seems to be able to compile all code to exe and dlls. Unlike PyInstaller which compiles Python sources to .pyc and .pyd only.

Or am I mistaken?

Regards

Dne ponedeljek, 03. september 2018 03.50.24 UTC+2 je oseba QuanTech napisala:

[QuanTech]

With '-F' option, PyInstaller can create a one-file bundled executable(.exe), but I never tried dlls.

Have a look at its manual:

https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/v3.3.1/usage.html

It looks very versatile.