pynsist 2.8
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.
Pynsist 2 requires Python 3.5 or above. You can use Pynsist 1.x on Python 2.7 and Python 3.3 or above.
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=3.6.3 [Include] # Packages from PyPI that your application requires, one per line # These must have wheels on PyPI: pypi_wheels = requests==2.18.4 beautifulsoup4==4.6.0 html5lib==0.999999999 # Other files and folders that should be installed files = LICENSE data_files/
See The Config File for more details about this, including how to bundle packages which don’t publish wheels.
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