Compiled EXE is including unused libraries

[non-npc]

I am compiling my exe to a folder and I noticed in the _internal folder, it is putting libraries that I am not using in my project.
For example it is adding pygame, which I am not even using which is what brought up this question in the first place.
How do I ensure the compiled output only includes the libraries it needs to function ?

For example this is my imports:

• `import webview
• import traceback
• import logging
• import sys
• import json
• import os
• import subprocess
• from urllib.parse import unquote
• from datetime import datetime
• from functools import wraps
• import threading
• import time
• import psutil`

and after compiling with auto-py-to-exe,
in the output "_interal" folder this is what is in there:

• `2024-09-07 12:33 PM aiohttp
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,112 api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 26,216 api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 18,696 api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 26,216 api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 30,328 api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 75,368 api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 26,208 api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 26,232 api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 26,232 api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,120 api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 22,136 api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM attrs-23.2.0.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 1,334,069 base_library.zip
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM bcrypt
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM cefpython3
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM certifi
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM cffi-1.16.0.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM charset_normalizer
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM clr_loader
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM cryptography
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM cryptography-42.0.8.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM dnspython-2.6.1.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 654,336 freetype.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM frozenlist
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM gevent
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM gevent-24.2.1.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM greenlet
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM greenlet-3.0.3.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM importlib_metadata-7.2.1.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM jaraco
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 5,191,960 libcrypto-3.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 39,696 libffi-8.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 1,272,353 libjpeg-62.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 244,224 libjpeg-9.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 265,216 libmodplug-1.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 35,328 libogg-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 370,176 libopus-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 51,200 libopusfile-0.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 279,040 libpng16-16.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 787,224 libssl-3.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 387,584 libtiff-5.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 175,616 libwavpack-1.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 444,416 libwebp-7.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 24,064 libwebpdemux-2.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 387,584 libxmp.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM markupsafe
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM msgpack
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 827,728 MSVCR100.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM multidict
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM numpy
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM numpy.libs
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM PIL
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 41,984 portmidi.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM psutil
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM pycparser-2.22.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 202,008 pyexpat.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM pygame
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM PyQt5
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 68,376 python3.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 6,926,616 python312.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM pythonnet
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM pywin32_system32
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 2,531,328 SDL2.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 217,600 SDL2_image.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 306,688 SDL2_mixer.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 1,799,680 SDL2_ttf.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 31,000 select.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM service_identity-24.1.0.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM setuptools
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM setuptools-73.0.1.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM tornado
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM typeguard-4.3.0.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 1,016,584 ucrtbase.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 1,138,456 unicodedata.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 119,192 VCRUNTIME140.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 49,528 VCRUNTIME140_1.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM webview
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM wheel-0.44.0.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM win32
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM yaml
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM yarl
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 108,544 zlib1.dll
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM zope
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM zope.event-5.0.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM zope.interface-6.4.post2.dist-info
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM zstandard
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 71,448 _asyncio.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 821,248 _brotli.cp312-win_amd64.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 85,272 _bz2.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 182,784 _cffi_backend.cp312-win_amd64.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 125,208 _ctypes.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 257,304 _decimal.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 133,400 _elementtree.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 66,328 _hashlib.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 160,024 _lzma.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 35,608 _multiprocessing.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 56,088 _overlapped.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 32,536 _queue.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 83,736 _socket.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 178,968 _ssl.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 25,880 _uuid.pyd
• 2024-09-07 12:33 PM 37,656 _wmi.pyd`

[brentvollebregt]

You could try adding some of these modules to --exclude-module (like pygame) to see if they get excluded. Also as recommended in the help post - using a virtual environment will help cut down this a lot as it will only have what you need in it + auto-py-to-exe.