brimstone/pyinstaller repository overview

⁠PyInstaller Docker Image

This is a container to build python scripts into windows exes on linux.

⁠Tag

brimstone/pyinstallerx has only :latest

This runs Python 3.4 and pyinstaller 3.2.1

⁠Usage

This container runs Wine inside Ubuntu to emulate Windows in Docker.

To build your application, you need to mount your source code into the /src/ volume.

The source code directory should have your .spec file that PyInstaller generates. If you don't have one, you'll need to run PyInstaller once locally to generate it.

If the src folder has a requirements.txt file, the packages will be installed into the environment before PyInstaller runs.

For example, in the folder that has your source code, .spec file and requirements.txt:

docker run -v "$(pwd):/src/" brimstone/pyinstaller-windows

will build your PyInstaller project into dist/windows/. The .exe file will have the same name as your .spec file.

⁠How do I install system libraries or dependencies that my Python packages need?

You'll need to supply a custom command to Docker to install system pacakges. Something like:

docker run -v "$(pwd):/src/" brimstone/pyinstaller "apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y wget && pip install -r requirements.txt && pyinstaller --clean -y --dist ./dist/windows --workpath /tmp *.spec"

Replace wget with the dependencies / package(s) you need to install.

⁠How do I generate a .spec file?

docker run -v "$(pwd):/src/" brimstone/pyinstaller pyinstaller your-script.py

will generate a spec file for your-script.py in your current working directory. See the PyInstaller docs for more information.

⁠How do I change the PyInstaller version used?

Add pyinstaller=3.3 to your requirements.txt.

⁠Is it possible to use a package mirror?

Yes, by supplying the PYPI_URL and PYPI_INDEX_URL environment variables that point to your PyPi mirror.

⁠Credits

Thanks to https://github.com/cdrx/docker-pyinstaller⁠ for the original work.