How to package the source code of esp-matter-tools into .exe

[ethan-jy]

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May I ask how to package it into exe? We need to use it separately from Python. Thank you.

[shubhamdp]

We have not yet considered shipping it as .exe. We will check and get back with shipping it for Windows platform.

[shubhamdp]

@ethan-jy I tried using pyinstaller on mac, can you please check if this works windows?

Please try it in virtual environment

python3 -m pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller --onefile --name esp-matter-mfg-tool -c -p deps -p sources sources/mfg_tool.py
./dist/esp-matter-mfg-tool

There should be ./dist/esp-matter-mfg-tool.exe present.

Please let me know, if possible I'll check if these can be shipped through Github releases.

PS: When I ran the tool, it was very slow, It took almost 10s on first attempt and 5s on consequent attempts.