How can I hide the console window when freezing wxPython applications with cxFreeze?

Question

I'm developing a Python application using wxPython and freezing it using cxFreeze. All seems to be going fine apart from this following bit:

When I run the executable created by cxFreeze, a blank console window pops up. I don't want to show it. Is there any way I could hide it?

It doesn't seem to be documented on the cxFreeze site and Googling didn't turn up much apart from some similar sorta problems with Py2Exe.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This worked to some extent but it has issues. My program runs in both a console mode and a GUI mode. When run from the console with a --console argument it runs in a console mode. When I followed the procedure below, this doesn't work anymore and my program is only a GUI app then.

The following source code comes from a sample file in the \Python\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\samples\PyQt4\setup.py. Lesson of the day. Read the README.

# A simple setup script to create an executable using PyQt4. This also
# demonstrates the method for creating a Windows executable that does not have
# an associated console.
#
# PyQt4app.py is a very simple type of PyQt4 application
#
# Run the build process by running the command 'python setup.py build'
#
# If everything works well you should find a subdirectory in the build
# subdirectory that contains the files needed to run the application

import sys

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
    base = "Win32GUI"

setup(
        name = "simple_PyQt4",
        version = "0.1",
        description = "Sample cx_Freeze PyQt4 script",
        executables = [Executable("PyQt4app.py", base = base)])