Making a PyInstaller exe do both command-line and windowed

This is not a perfect solution, but this workaround did the job for me:

Build gui app in --noconsole --one file mode like this:

pyinstaller --noconsole --onefile hello.py

When you double click on the app from windows it will launch normally (without the console).

Now to see the output, navigate to the executable from the command line and type:

hello.exe | more

The "| more" should send the print statements to the console.

python windows command-line pyinstaller

This is a problem with Windows (not PyInstaller), which requires the subsystem to be specified as either CONSOLE or WINDOWS at compilation-time.

The recommended solution is to split your app (eg hello) into two distinct versions:

In theory, you could also add a wrapper .exe that switches between the two actual binaries above, depending on how it's called..

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