pynsist 1.12¶
pynsist is a tool to build Windows installers for your Python applications. The installers bundle Python itself, so you can distribute your application to people who don’t have Python installed.
At present, pynsist requires Python 3.3 or above, or Python 2.7.
Quickstart¶
Get the tools. Install NSIS, and then install pynsist from PyPI by running
pip install pynsist
.Write a config file
installer.cfg
, like this:[Application] name=My App version=1.0 # How to launch the app - this calls the 'main' function from the 'myapp' package: entry_point=myapp:main icon=myapp.ico [Python] version=3.4.0 [Include] # Importable packages that your application requires, one per line packages = requests bs4 html5lib # Other files and folders that should be installed files = LICENSE data_files/
See The Config File for more details about this.
- Run
pynsist installer.cfg
to generate your installer. Ifpynsist
isn’t found, you can usepython -m nsist installer.cfg
instead.
Contents¶
See also the examples folder in the repository.
The API is not yet documented here, because I’m still working out how it should be structured. The functions and classes have docstrings, and you’re welcome to use them directly, though they may change in the future.
See also