Thanks for the tip, I had not tried that. I installed UPX (version 3.96 from home-brew) and it saved me a whopping 0.0001 percent. The single file binary for "hello world" went from 5870240 bytes to 5870233 bytes. On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 8:13:33 AM UTC-8 Pax Williams wrote:
> Have you tried using UPX? > > https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html#using-upx > > On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 12:56:09 AM UTC-8 elliott...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Even for a very simple python code, PyInstaller adds a lot of extra >> files. Is there a recommended way to remove some of this to make the app >> smaller? For example, a Python code with just one line: >> >> print('Hello world.') >> >> The app package is 13.5 MB on macOS, or 5.9MB in one-file mode. Some of >> the largest files in the package are: >> libcrypto.1.1.dylib 2.8M >> unicodedata.cpython-37m-darwin.so 1.1M >> libssl.1.1.dylib 556K >> libncursesw.5.dylib 433K >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyinstaller+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/d7e9c2de-749b-4667-8fd6-8f54f73044ean%40googlegroups.com.
