How can I install auto-py-to-exe in Python3.13.1?

[a-club113]

I just ran pip install auto-py-to-exe, but somehow it did not work with this error.
How can I install auto-py-to-exe in Python3.13.1?
I'm using Python3.13.1 in Windows11 Pro 24H2.
The logs is as follows:

Collecting auto-py-to-exe
  Using cached auto_py_to_exe-2.45.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (17 kB)
Collecting Eel!=0.18.0,>=0.11.0 (from auto-py-to-exe)
  Using cached eel-0.18.1.tar.gz (26 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [58 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
          exec(compile('''
          ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
          # This is <pip-setuptools-caller> -- a caller that pip uses to run setup.py
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          ...<31 lines>...
          exec(compile(setup_py_code, filename, "exec"))
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          ''' % ('C:\\Users\\Owner\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-tvjgmted\\eel_b10e01e68e70407fa2e7b5b2ce67229e\\setup.py',), "<pip-setuptools-caller>", "exec"))
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-tvjgmted\eel_b10e01e68e70407fa2e7b5b2ce67229e\setup.py", line 7, in <module>
          setup(
          ~~~~~^
              name='Eel',
              ^^^^^^^^^^^
          ...<28 lines>...
              ],
              ^^
          )
          ^
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 117, in setup
          return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 145, in setup
          _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
                                       ~~~~~^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 319, in __init__
          _Distribution.__init__(self, dist_attrs)
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 279, in __init__
          self.finalize_options()
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 676, in finalize_options
          for ep in sorted(loaded, key=by_order):
                    ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 675, in <lambda>
          loaded = map(lambda e: e.load(), filtered)
                                 ~~~~~~^^
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\importlib\metadata\__init__.py", line 179, in load
          module = import_module(match.group('module'))
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
          return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1026, in exec_module
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
          from cx_Freeze.command.bdist_msi import bdist_msi
        File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\command\bdist_msi.py", line 31, in <module>
          from msilib import (  # pylint: disable=deprecated-module
          ...<15 lines>...
          )
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'msilib'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[mostypc123]

cx_Freeze tries to import msilib, which was removed in Python 3.13
this is not a mistake with this project, zou can ask the developers of eel

[a-club113]

Thanks for your reply!
Then should I ask this to cx_freeze project?

[mostypc123]

yes

[a-club113]

I see
Thanks!

[mostypc123]

no problem

[brentvollebregt]

Support for cx_Freeze in Python 3.13 will be in the next minor release, 7.3.0, of cx_Freeze.

See marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze#2659 for more info.

---

I'm not actually sure why it's trying to setup cx_Freeze though, I can't see it in the dependency tree,

auto-py-to-exe                           
├── Eel!=0.18.0,>=0.11.0                 
│   ├── bottle                           
│   ├── bottle-websocket                 
│   │   ├── bottle                       
│   │   └── gevent-websocket             
│   │       └── gevent                   
│   │           ├── cffi>=1.17.1         
│   │           │   └── pycparser        
│   │           ├── greenlet>=3.1.1      
│   │           ├── zope.event           
│   │           │   └── setuptools       
│   │           └── zope.interface       
│   │               └── setuptools       
│   ├── future                           
│   ├── pyparsing                        
│   └── typing-extensions                
├── pyinstaller>=5.8.0                   
│   ├── altgraph                         
│   ├── importlib-metadata>=4.6          
│   │   └── zipp>=3.20                   
│   ├── packaging>=22.0                  
│   ├── pefile!=2024.8.26,>=2022.5.30    
│   ├── pyinstaller-hooks-contrib>=2024.9
│   │   ├── importlib_metadata>=4.6      
│   │   │   └── zipp>=3.20               
│   │   ├── packaging>=22.0              
│   │   └── setuptools>=42.0.0           
│   ├── pywin32-ctypes>=0.2.1            
│   └── setuptools>=42.0.0               
└── requests                             
    ├── certifi>=2017.4.17               
    ├── charset-normalizer<4,>=2         
    ├── idna<4,>=2.5                     
    └── urllib3<3,>=1.21.1               

Maybe trying to install auto-py-to-exe in a clean virtual environment might skip the install for cx_Freeze.

[a-club113]

Thanks for reply!
I'll see the URL and try using virtual environment!