cx_Freeze converted GUI-app (tkinter) crashes after pressing plot button

Question

I\'ve been dealing with this for days now and hope to find some help. I developed a GUI-application with imported modules tkinter, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, which runs fine

Answer 1

I have followed @J.J. Hakala's answer, but I found that it's not necessary copy all mkl_*.dll and libiomp5md.dll files. For me it worked with libiomp5md.dll mkl_core.dll mkl_def.dll mkl_intel_thread.dll. This helps to reduce the final bundle size in ~500MB.

Also, you can include the files you want to copy in the include_files option. You also could only want to include them if sys.platform is win32.

I'm using Anaconda as well as @Matt Williams, so, changing a bit the OP's code:

import cx_Freeze
import matplotlib
import sys
import numpy
import tkinter
import os

PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.__file__))

build_exe_options = {"includes":   ["matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg","matplotlib.pyplot",
                             "tkinter.filedialog","numpy"],
                     "include_files":[(matplotlib.get_data_path(), "mpl-data")],
                     "excludes":[],
                    }

base = None

if sys.platform == "win32":
    base = "Win32GUI"
    DLLS_FOLDER = os.path.join(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR, 'Library', 'bin')

    dependencies = ['libiomp5md.dll', 'mkl_core.dll', 'mkl_def.dll', 'mkl_intel_thread.dll']

    for dependency in dependencies:
        build_exe_options['include_files'].append(os.path.join(DLLS_FOLDER, dependency))

executables = [cx_Freeze.Executable("test.py", base=base)]

cx_Freeze.setup(
    name = "test it",
    options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
    version = "1.0",
    description = "I test it",
    executables = executables)