pynsist 1.12 — pynsist 1.12 documentation (original) (raw)

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

  1. Get the tools. Install NSIS, and then install pynsist from PyPI by running pip install pynsist.
  2. 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/

  1. Run pynsist installer.cfg to generate your installer. If pynsist isn’t found, you can use python -m nsist installer.cfg instead.