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RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - buran - Feb-17-2021

(Feb-17-2021, 06:58 PM)pdihawk Wrote: What exactly do you mean by the full traceback? :)

the full error, not just the last line

EDIT
I see that in __init__.py it catch the error and obfuscate the error, print this message without providing much information. So there is no traceback

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - pdihawk - Feb-17-2021

My whole command prompt:
[inline]C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\dist>ShowJulian.exe
tkinter did not import successfully. Please check your setup.[/inline]

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - pdihawk - Feb-17-2021

When I run pyinstaller I get the following:

Output:pyinstaller ShowJulian.spec
55 INFO: PyInstaller: 4.2
56 INFO: Python: 3.7.3
56 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0
57 INFO: UPX is not available.
58 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['C:\\Users\\PDI '
 'User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\ShowJulian',
 'C:\\Users\\PDI '
 'User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\ShowJulian\\dist']
65 INFO: checking Analysis
67 INFO: Building because C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\ShowJulian.py changed
68 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
69 INFO: Caching module graph hooks...
79 WARNING: Several hooks defined for module 'win32ctypes.core'. Please take care they do not conflict.
82 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
2519 INFO: Caching module dependency graph...
2613 INFO: running Analysis Analysis-00.toc
2615 INFO: Adding Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls to dependent assemblies of final executable
  required by c:\users\pdi user\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python.exe
2670 INFO: Analyzing ShowJulian.py
2763 INFO: Processing module hooks...
2763 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-difflib.py' from 'c:\\users\\pdi user\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python37\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks'...
2764 INFO: Excluding import of doctest from module difflib
2764 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-encodings.py' from 'c:\\users\\pdi user\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python37\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks'...
2835 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-heapq.py' from 'c:\\users\\pdi user\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python37\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks'...
2836 INFO: Excluding import of doctest from module heapq
2836 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-pickle.py' from 'c:\\users\\pdi user\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python37\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks'...
2840 INFO: Excluding import of argparse from module pickle
2844 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-xml.py' from 'c:\\users\\pdi user\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python37\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks'...
3035 INFO: Looking for ctypes DLLs
3035 INFO: Analyzing run-time hooks ...
3043 INFO: Looking for dynamic libraries
3163 INFO: Looking for eggs
3164 INFO: Using Python library c:\users\pdi user\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\python37.dll
3165 INFO: Found binding redirects:
[]
3167 INFO: Warnings written to C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\build\ShowJulian\warn-ShowJulian.txt
3201 INFO: Graph cross-reference written to C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\build\ShowJulian\xref-ShowJulian.html
3210 INFO: checking PYZ
3212 INFO: Building because toc changed
3213 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\build\ShowJulian\PYZ-00.pyz
3650 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\build\ShowJulian\PYZ-00.pyz completed successfully.
3664 INFO: checking PKG
3665 INFO: Building because toc changed
3665 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg
5205 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg completed successfully.
5208 INFO: Bootloader c:\users\pdi user\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\bootloader\Windows-64bit\run.exe
5209 INFO: checking EXE
5210 INFO: Building because toc changed
5211 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc
5214 INFO: Copying icons from ['C:\\Users\\PDI User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python38-32\\ShowJulian\\app.ico']
5215 INFO: Writing RT_GROUP_ICON 0 resource with 20 bytes
5215 INFO: Writing RT_ICON 1 resource with 32907 bytes
5221 INFO: Updating manifest in C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\build\ShowJulian\run.exe.b0wujt10
5223 INFO: Updating resource type 24 name 1 language 0
5227 INFO: Appending archive to EXE C:\Users\PDI User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\ShowJulian\dist\ShowJulian.exe
5232 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc completed successfully.

I'm not really sure what to make of this. Is it helpful?

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - steve_shambles - Feb-18-2021

It worked OK for me on Win 7 Python V3.76

Try this line on pyinstaller:

pyinstaller yourapp.py -n yourapp --windowed --onefile

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - pdihawk - Feb-18-2021

Using that gives me the same issue.

Is my problem that I wrote my app in Python 3.8 and for some reason pyinstaller is running out of the 3.7?

I used IDLE(Python 3.8) to write my code. Is there a way to associate pyinstaller with 3.8 or do I have to use Python 3.7?

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - pdihawk - Feb-18-2021

So I Installed IDLE 3.7.1, copied it over and still no luck. It still tells me that tkinter did not import successfully.

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - steve_shambles - Feb-19-2021

It looks like a problem with your setup.

Did you tick "path" on the Python installer
when you installed Python?
Are you using a virtual environment?

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - snippsat - Feb-19-2021

(Feb-18-2021, 10:13 PM)pdihawk Wrote: So I Installed IDLE 3.7.1, copied it over and still no luck. It still tells me that tkinter did not import successfully.

That's not how you do it,and IDLE come with Python.
Look at Python 3.9/3.8 and pip installation under Windows.
So if Python 3.8 is the main version you want to use then python and pip should point to Python 3.8.
If not fix Environment Variables Path as i explain in link over.
Example cmd.

# Test Python
C:\>python -V
Python 3.9.1

# Test pip
C:\>pip -V
pip 20.2.4 from c:\python39\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.9)

Now you see that pip point to Python 3.9.
Then will pip install pyinstaller --upgrade install to Python 3.9.

# Install pyinstaller
C:\>pip install pyinstaller --upgrade
Collecting pyinstaller
  Downloading .....
Successfully built pyinstaller

# See Location
C:\>pip show pyinstaller
Name: pyinstaller
Version: 4.2
Summary: PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into
a single package.
Home-page: http://www.pyinstaller.org/
Author: Hartmut Goebel, Giovanni Bajo, David Vierra, David Cortesi, Martin Zibri
cky
Author-email: None
License: GPLv2-or-later with a special exception which allows to use PyInstaller
 to build and distribute non-free programs (including commercial ones)
Location: c:\python39\lib\site-packages
Requires: pyinstaller-hooks-contrib, altgraph, setuptools, pefile, pywin32-ctype

So when i now when i eg do as in link is posted.

pyinstaller --onefile --windowed --icon=idea.ico tk_test.py

Pyinstaller will now of course use Python 3.9,just the same setup for 3.8.

RE: PyInstaller Executable Does Nothing - pdihawk - Feb-22-2021

Yup. I cleaned up my PATH to only include Python 3.8 and I can now create an executable that works!

Thank you!!