I'm trying to use cx_freeze to build a binary dist for an web application written in Python 3 using the aiohttp package.

Basically I did:

cxfreeze server.py

and got a dist output

But when running the ./server binary, I got the following message:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/__startup__.py", line 12, in <module>__import__(name + "__init__")File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console.py", line 24, in <module>exec(code, m.__dict__)File "server.py", line 1, in <module>File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/aiohttp/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>from .protocol import *  # noqaFile "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/aiohttp/protocol.py", line 17, in <module>from . import errors, hdrsFile "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/aiohttp/errors.py", line 3, in <module>from asyncio import TimeoutErrorFile "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>from .base_events import *File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/base_events.py", line 32, in <module>from . import compatImportError: cannot import name 'compat'

Hopefully you've been able to fix this already, but for people searching this question like I was, I'll answer:

This compat module is part of asyncio, and not getting discovered by cx_Freeze. I had to add asyncio to the packages list in the build_exe options in setup.py to get it to be included:

setup(...options = {'build_exe': {'packages': ['encodings', 'asyncio']},}
)