Creating an executable from a script

[wolf8963]

Hi all,

I am using Python 3.6.7 32-bit on a Win-7 64bit system
I am attempting to create an executable from a script I created in eclipse 20190917-1200.
I have installed pywin32 via 'pip install pywin32', and verified I had the latest pyinstaller via 'python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pyinstaller'

I attempted creating the executable via 'pyinstaller.exe --onefile --windowed CopyExt.py', as well as 'pyinstaller.exe CopyExt.py'

Both attempts failed with:

Fatal error: PyInstaller does not include a pre-compiled bootloader for your
platform. For more details and instructions how to build the bootloader see
<https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/bootloader-building.html>

In the generated output (besides the error messages), the only messages that seem to express any type of concer are:
969 INFO: UPX is not available
1467 INFO: Building because toc changed
and
1836 INFO: Bootloader c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\bootloader\Windows-32bit\run.exe
1836 INFO: checking EXE
1836 INFO: Building EXE because EXE-00.toc is non existent
1836 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc

I attempted to follow the instructions in the link mentioned in the error by:
downloading the PyInstaller 3.6 tar.gz, and fully extracting it
CDing to the bootloader folder and running 'python ./waf all' and received the following error:

could not configure a C compiler!
(complete log in C:\AXLdev\Python\gitclone3_6\PyInstaller-3.6.tar\dist\PyInstaller-3.6\PyInstaller-3.6\bootloader\build\config.log)

In doing some checking, according to this link"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5358...yinstaller

I shouldnt require a C install.

I am fairly new to python, and have not tried compiling a script before so Im not really sure where I stand.

does anyone have any ideas?

thanks