Pyinstaller

Source: RealPython tutorial

Installing PyInstaller, even in a virtual environment, will install the pyinstaller executable to $HOME/.local/bin. On Windows, it is installed to another directory within LOCALAPPDATA.

pip install pyinstaller

PyInstaller creates primarily 3 items: - .spec file, named after the CLI script - build/ folder, which can be ignored - dist/ folder, containing the final artifact at dist/cli/cli or dist/cli/cli.exe

Several options are available hidden-import name onefile

pyinstaller script.py --onefile

On Windows, if PyInstaller is run from a virtual environment without necessary modules installed, they may not be available for compilation into the artifact. This does not appear to be an issue with Linux.

This problem appears to be specific to certain modules, like emoji.