I am trying to make a win 10 executable (.exe) from my helloworld.py script. I have installed pyinstall-3.2 and following the install document isn't so easy.
Any help getting this working will be appreciated.
PyInstaller is located at:
Quote:c:\pyInstaller-3.2
helloworld.py and hellowworld.bat are both at:
Quote:c:\users\michael\desktop\helloworld\
Here is the Bat file
python c:\pyInstaller-3.2\Makespec.py --onefile --console --upx --tk helloworld.py
python c:\pyInstaller-3.2\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py helloworld.spec
pause
Here is helloworld.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
for i in xrange(1000):
print "Hello, World!"
Finally, here are the error messages:
Error:
C:\Users\Michael\Desktop\helloworld>python c:\pyInstaller-3.2\Makespec.py --onefile --console --upx --tk helloworld.py
usage: Makespec.py [-h] [-D] [-F] [--specpath DIR] [-n NAME] [-p DIR]
[--hidden-import MODULENAME]
[--additional-hooks-dir HOOKSPATH]
[--runtime-hook RUNTIME_HOOKS] [--exclude-module EXCLUDES]
[--key KEY] [-d] [-s] [--noupx] [-c] [-w]
[-i <FILE.ico or FILE.exe,ID or FILE.icns>]
[--version-file FILE] [-m <FILE or XML>] [-r RESOURCE]
[--uac-admin] [--uac-uiaccess] [--win-private-assemblies]
[--win-no-prefer-redirects]
[--osx-bundle-identifier BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER]
[--log-level LEVEL] [--upx UPX]
scriptname [scriptname ...]
Makespec.py: error: argument --upx/-X/-K/--tk/-C/--configfile/--skip-configure/-o/--out/--buildpath: expected one argument
C:\Users\Michael\Desktop\helloworld>python c:\pyInstaller-3.2\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py helloworld.spec
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\pyInstaller-3.2\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 27, in <module>
from .. import HOMEPATH, DEFAULT_DISTPATH, DEFAULT_WORKPATH
ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package
C:\Users\Michael\Desktop\helloworld>pause
Press any key to continue . . .
Simply install
pyinstaller using pip
Then open a command promt, change the directory to the location of the .py file
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
(c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd /d c:\users\michael\desktop\helloworld\
then
execute pyinstaller using
c:\users\michael\desktop\helloworld>pyinstaller --onefile --console --upx --tk helloworld.py
For certain uses you may edit the contents of myscript.spec (described under
Using Spec Files). After you do this, you name the spec file to PyInstaller instead of the script:
c:\users\michael\desktop\helloworld>pyinstaller helloworld.spec
I got stuck on the second step.
here is the activity and error
c:\Users\Michael\Desktop\helloworld>dir
Volume in drive C is OS
Volume Serial Number is A2D2-EFB5
Directory of c:\Users\Michael\Desktop\helloworld
12/08/2016 05:06 PM <DIR> .
12/08/2016 05:06 PM <DIR> ..
12/08/2016 03:20 PM 169 helloworld.bat
12/08/2016 02:43 PM 76 helloworld.py
12/08/2016 05:06 PM 0 pyinstaller
3 File(s) 245 bytes
2 Dir(s) 709,115,584,512 bytes free
c:\Users\Michael\Desktop\helloworld>pyinstaller --onefile --console --upx --tk helloworld.py
usage: pyinstaller [-h] [-v] [-D] [-F] [--specpath DIR] [-n NAME] [-p DIR]
[--hidden-import MODULENAME]
[--additional-hooks-dir HOOKSPATH]
[--runtime-hook RUNTIME_HOOKS] [--exclude-module EXCLUDES]
[--key KEY] [-d] [-s] [--noupx] [-c] [-w]
[-i <FILE.ico or FILE.exe,ID or FILE.icns>]
[--version-file FILE] [-m <FILE or XML>] [-r RESOURCE]
[--uac-admin] [--uac-uiaccess] [--win-private-assemblies]
[--win-no-prefer-redirects]
[--osx-bundle-identifier BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER]
[--distpath DIR] [--workpath WORKPATH] [-y]
[--upx-dir UPX_DIR] [-a] [--clean] [--log-level LEVEL]
[--upx UPX]
scriptname [scriptname ...]
Error:
pyinstaller: error: argument --upx/-X/-K/--tk/-C/--configfile/--skip-configure/-o/--out/--buildpath: expected one argument
c:\Users\Michael\Desktop\helloworld>
Try executing with no options to begin with to see if it works like that
c:\users\michael\desktop\helloworld>pyinstaller helloworld.py
pyinstaller options
--upx-dir UPX_DIR requires a path to UPX utility (default: search the execution path)
is
--tk a valid option I didn't spot it.
Yes, that ran okay and the the exe file was found in the dist/helloworld folder
and it ran so there must be something in the previous options that caused the error
one more question, at the end oif the original command there was a --tk
is tk supposed to be an executable somewhere?
Anyway, thanks for the help
Read the rest of my previous post
Oh yea, I see it now.
--tk came from a "simple" install document that got me to this point.
the path to UPX in set up on this system but removing --tk didn't help.
I removed the --upx and --tk and it worked.
Again, thanks for the help.