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Packaging and Distributing PyQt5 Applications
Sharing your awesome applications with other people

There comes a point in any app's development where it needs to leave home — half the fun in writing software is being able to share it with other people. Packaging Python GUI apps can be a little tricky, but in this PyQt5 tutorial we'll cover how to package up your apps to share, whether commercially or just for fun.

Start with “Packaging PyQt5 applications for Windows with PyInstaller & InstallForge”

5 tutorials 1:42:20

Packaging PyQt5 applications for Windows with PyInstaller & InstallForge
Turn your PyQt5 application into a distributable installer for Windows

Packaging PyQt5 applications into a macOS app with PyInstaller
Turn your PyQt5 application into a distributable app

Packaging PyQt5 applications for Linux with PyInstaller & fpm
Turn your PyQt5 application into installable Linux packages

Using QResource to Package Data Files With PyInstaller and PyQt5
Serialize data files for easy packaging in Python

Packaging PyQt5 apps with fbs
Distribute cross-platform GUI applications with the fman Build System

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