python - tkinter program compiles with cx_Freeze but program will not launch

Question

I'm trying to create an executable following this tutorial

https://github.com/anthony-tuininga/cx_Freeze/tree/master/cx_Freeze/samples/Tkinter

After some tweaking I'm able to compile the project but when i click the .exe the mouse loading animation fires but nothing ever loads. This questions has been asked previously but was never resolved.

Where to start looking in the code when your .exe doesn't work after cx_freeze?

My app file

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import messagebox

root = Tk()
root.title('Button')
print("something")
new = messagebox.showinfo("Title", "A tk messagebox")
root.mainloop()

my setup.py

import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

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

executables = [
    Executable('SimpleTkApp.py', base=base)
]

setup(name='simple_Tkinter',
      version='0.1',
      description='Sample cx_Freeze Tkinter script',
      executables= [Executable("SimpleTkApp.py", base=base)])

Also I have been manually adding the TCL/TK libraries

set TK_LIBRARY=C:...k8.6  etc

My configuration: python 3.7, cx_Freeze 5.1.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I don't even know where to start on this one.

Answer 1

After trying an even simpler hello world example writing to the console (which also failed) I stumbled across the culprit.

What could be the reason for fatal python error:initfsencoding:unable to load the file system codec?

After updating my freezer.py file with the code found here and using the setup.py provided by jpeg, my example app worked. Thank you both for your swift response.