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Packaging app for Windows

Instructions for packaging a Flet app into a Windows application.

Info

This guide provides detailed Windows-specific information. Complementary and more general information is available here.

Prerequisites​

Visual Studio​

Visual Studio (2022 or 2026) is required with the Desktop development with C++ workload installed.

Follow this guide for instructions on downloading and installing correct Visual Studio components for Flutter desktop development.

flet build windows​

Note

This command can be run on Windows only.

Builds a Windows application.

Troubleshooting​

Developer mode​

If you get the below error:

Building with plugins requires symlink support.

Please enable Developer Mode in your system settings. Run
  start ms-settings:developers
to open settings.

Then, you need to enable Developer Mode as it indicates. Follow this guide on how to do that.