Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: cx_Freeze
Version: 8.3.0
Summary: Create standalone executables from Python scripts
Author-email: Anthony Tuininga <anthony.tuininga@gmail.com>, Marcelo Duarte <marcelotduarte@users.noreply.github.com>
License-Expression: PSF-2.0
Project-URL: Home, https://marcelotduarte.github.io/cx_Freeze
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Project-URL: Documentation, https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io
Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze
Project-URL: Tracker, https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze/issues
Project-URL: Workflows, https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze/actions?query=branch:main
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Classifier: Programming Language :: C
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**cx\_Freeze** creates standalone executables from Python scripts, with the
same performance, is cross-platform and should work on any platform that Python
itself works on.

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# What's New v8.3:
- Experimental support for Python 3.11 to 3.13 on Windows ARM64 (win_arm64).
- Bug fixes, hooks, and more tests.

# What's New v8.2:
- Make MSI checkbox to "launch on finish" optional.
- Bug fixes, hooks, and more tests.

# What's New v8.1:
- Add "launch on finish" checkbox to the MSI installer.
- Bug fixes and improvements (including hook additions and enhancements).

# What's New v8.0:
- Python 3.13 support.
- Python 3.13 free-threaded support for Linux and macOS.
- Download and extract the [MSVC Redistributable files](https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#microsoft-visual-c-redistributable-package).
- Implement bases using PEP587 - Python Initialization Configuration.
- Drop Python 3.8 support.
- Bug fixes and improvements (including hook additions and enhancements).

# Installation

Choose the Python package manager according to your system. See how the
installation works with the most common ones, which are pip and conda.

To install the latest version of `cx_Freeze` using `pip` into a
virtual environment:
```
pip install --upgrade cx_Freeze
```

To install the latest development build:

```
pip uninstall cx_Freeze
pip install --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ cx_Freeze --pre --no-cache
```

Installing cx_freeze from the conda-forge channel can be achieved with the
command:
```
conda install conda-forge::cx_freeze
```

Please check the
[installation](https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html)
for more information.

# Documentation

The official documentation is available
[here](https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io).

If you need help you can also ask on the
[discussion](https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze/discussions) channel.

# License

cx\_Freeze uses a license derived from the
[Python Software Foundation License](https://www.python.org/psf/license).
You can read the cx\_Freeze license in the
[documentation](https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/stable/license.html)
or in the [source repository](LICENSE.md).
