tkinter program compiles with cx_Freeze but program will not launch

Question

I\'m trying to create an executable following this tutorial

https://github.com/anthony-tuininga/cx_Freeze/tree/master/cx_Freeze/samples/Tkinter

After some t

Answer 1

After trying an even simpler hello world example writing to the console (which also failed) I stumbled across the culprit.

What could be the reason for fatal python error:initfsencoding:unable to load the file system codec?

After updating my freezer.py file with the code found here and using the setup.py provided by jpeg, my example app worked. Thank you both for your swift response.