Welcome to PyInstaller Development website
PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux and Irix. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 1.5, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is multi-platform (so you can build one-file binaries also under Linux), and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility.
PyInstaller is an effort to rescue, maintain and further develop Gordon McMillan's Python Installer (now PyInstaller). Their official website is not longer available and the original package is not longer maintained. Believing that it is still far superior to py2exe, we have setup this site to continue its further development.
Feel free to join us in the effort! Please consult our Roadmap to check our plans. Also usage reports are welcomed: let us know if PyInstaller works for you and how, or what problems you found in using it.
Stable release
The latest stable release of PyInstaller is 1.3 (Change Log). See below for download links.
Features
- Packaging of Python programs into standard executables, that work on computers without Python installed.
- Multiplatform: works under Windows, Linux and Irix. (Mac port in development. See /branches/mac on SVN)
- Multiversion: works under any version of Python since 1.5.
- Dual packaging mode:
- Single directory: build a directory containing an executable plus all the external binary modules (.dll, .pyd, .so) used by the program.
- Single file: build a single executable file, totally self-contained, which runs without any external dependency.
- Support for automatic binary packing through the well-known UPX compressor.
- Optional console mode (see standard output and standard error at runtime).
- Selectable executable icon (Windows only).
- Fully configurable version resource section in executable (Windows only).
- Support for building COM servers (Windows only).
License
PyInstaller is distributed under the GPL license (see the file doc/LICENSE.GPL in the source code), with a special exception which allows to use PyInstaller to build and distribute non-free programs (including commercial ones). In other words, you have no restrictions in using PyInstaller as-is, but any kind of modifications to it will have to comply with the GPL license. See also our FAQ.
(Historical note: The original Python Installer used to be distributed under a MIT-style license. Even though it was not strictly required, Gordon himself nodded the license change.)
Requirements
PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 1.5 and up to 2.4.
Stable Downloads
| File | MD5 | Description |
| Release 1.3 | ||
| PyInstaller 1.3 (tar.gz) | 3968da33ac2a7840cf742f304a934885 | Stable Release |
| PyInstaller 1.3 (zip) | 31e1429651fdd261265c21e64766294f | Stable Release |
| Release 1.2 | ||
| PyInstaller 1.2 (tar.gz) | 2a2ffbc268e41e7719c3a0f64befc003 | Stable Release |
| PyInstaller 1.2 (zip) | ffa9c0490ba82354926d77260eade7a8 | Stable Release |
| Release 1.1 | ||
| PyInstaller 1.1 (tar.gz) | 7083e1cfa76d289850ac772255fe17b5 | Stable Release |
| PyInstaller 1.1 (zip) | 7460aa192485aae6f033bf5b8f0727f5 | Stable Release |
| Release 1.0 | ||
| PyInstaller 1.0 (tar.gz) | 67f61ebd91f17dda424d1b1f87cb1737 | First stable release |
| PyInstaller 1.0 (zip) | 10245e214ccbd07e123e8d3792c83c81 | First stable release |
Other Downloads
| File | MD5 | Description |
| PyInstaller Weekly Devel Snapshot (temporarilly disabled) | Weekly Snapshot of Repository. See Snapshot Release] | Unstable. Read the Change Log for details on the changes. |
| McMillan's Installer 5b5 (original) | 24debb863932c1de0cc077299148fadc | Original latest stable release (Consider this McMillanInstallerPatches) |
| McMillan's Installer 6a2 (original) | db1de8a2864ae3972082a5d7841a31a7 | Original latest alpha release (unknown change log at this point) |
Documentation
- Version 1.1 documentation here
- Version 1.0 documentation here
- The latest version of the documentation (from SVN trunk) can be read here
Bug reports
Look at the list of open bugs. To report a new bug, you will need a dummy login as a spam countermeasure, see the FAQ.
FAQ
Our FAQ is here.
Maintainers
- Giovanni Bajo (rasky at develer dot com) is the current maintainer of PyInstaller.
- William Caban (william at monids dot org) is in charge of the website and the development infrastructure (many thanks, man!)
- Gordon McMillan wrote the original Python Installer, on which PyInstaller is based.
Mailing List
Subversion Repository
- You may browse the current repostory at the Repository Browser
- Or you may check out the current version by running svn co http://svn.pyinstaller.python-hosting.com/trunk pyinstaller
