Nuitka on Windows produces genuine .exe binaries — not CPython bundled in a zip archive. The compilation requires a C compiler (either MSVC or MinGW64), and Windows introduces several platform-specific constraints that don’t exist on Linux or macOS.
This guide covers the complete workflow: compiler setup, platform-specific flags, UPX compression, code signing, and GitHub Actions multi-platform builds that produce Windows, Linux, and macOS artifacts from the same pipeline.
