How can I create a executable from a game written in pygame

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I have written a game with Python3 using Pygame module. Now I want to create an executable of the game for Mac Os so that I can distribute it.

try this https://www.pygame.org/wiki/MacCompile – sleepyhead Oct 19 '20 at 08:11 — sleepyhead, Oct 19 '20 at 08:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '20 at 08:22

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Try doing this and report if it works:

pip3 install pyinstaller

navigate to project directory

pyinstaller --onefile insertfilenamehere.py

answered Oct 19 '20 at 08:22

Glatinis

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '20 at 08:34

This question has been anwsered here : How can I convert pygame to exe?

But basically what you want to do is :

1 - Install pyinstaller :

pip install pyinstaller

2 - Deal with static assets such as images with this code :

import sys
import os

def resource_path(relative_path):
    try:
    # PyInstaller creates a temp folder and stores path in _MEIPASS
        base_path = sys._MEIPASS
    except Exception:
        base_path = os.path.abspath(".")

    return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)

Then to load the images in the game you call your function

asset_url = resource_path('assets/chars/hero.png')
hero_asset = pygame.image.load(asset_url)

3 - Finally, you can create an executable from your .py file by typing the following in a CMD inside of your game directory :

pyinstaller --onefile main_game_script.py

How can I create a executable from a game written in pygame

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