I'm trying create an executable from my code that uses PyQt5. I'm using Python 3.5.3 -64 bits, developing in Windows 10, used pip to install pyinstaller 3.2.1, and installed pywin32. Pyinstaller runs but outputs warnings that libraries aren't found.
I'm creating my application using the following:
pyinstaller Start_UI.py
Which outputs these warnings.
pyinstaller Start_UI.spec
Which outputs these warnings
When I open the executable that pyinstaller creates, the application closes immediately. I suspect the application is failing because of the warnings. How can I resolve the warnings so the executable works?
Thank you for the replies.
Edit:
I searched for DLL files on my computer and copied them into the dist folder which resolved the warnings output by:
pyinstaller Start_UI.py
As for:
pyinstaller Start_UI.spec
I located the mission api-mis-win-crt-* dll files in my installation of Windows SDK, and copied them into dist as well. This time, the warnings were not resolved as pyinstaller can't locate the dll files. Where do I need to put the api dll files for pyinstaller to locate them?
After a lot of research, the problem is because of Windows 10. While I didn't find a Windows 10 solution, I did solve my problem in Windows 7.
I tested pyinstaller on Windows 7 and was still getting warnings, but not the api-ms-win-crt-*.dll warnings.
I copied all the dll files in my Python35 directory into the pyinstaller generated dist folder. At this point, pyinstaller can turn a Hello World program into an executable without errors:
pyinstaller --onefile Hello_World.py
However, turning a PyQt5 program into an executable gives errors because pyinstaller can't locate the Qt5*.dll files. To fix this copy the PyQt5, Qt5*.dll files, under Lib/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/bin and into dist. Then tell pyinstaller where the dll files are using --path:
pyinstaller --onefile --path dist Start_UI.py
This creates a working executable Start_UI.exe in dist.
Looks like the error was due to vcruntime140.dll not being included in the dist folder. Check the executable after manually copying it to the dist folder
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I'm using PyInstaller to build a Windows EXE. It's building correctly, but the EXE is almost double the size of an EXE generated from the same .py code in the past. I'm assuming that either the version of Python, an imported package, or Pyinstaller itself has changed. I have the /build directory artifacts and the .spec files from the current and prior builds. Is there a way to extract the version information from those artifacts to figure out what has changed? When PyInstaller runs it prints out its version but I'm not seeing anything like that in the /build directory.
My platform is Windows 10 and Python 3.9. There is another computer(Windows server 2008R2) without Python. So I'd like to use pyinstaller in my computer and use .exe on the other computer.
I tried simple script print("hello") and used pyinstaller -F myscript.py
.exe works on my computer, but failed on the other computer.
Error
error loading python dll ~ python39.dll
Should I use Python 3.8? Or what should I do?
The problem is that Pyinstaller does not create fully standalone executables, it creates dependencies (E.g. this python39.dll), so this python39.dll should be on the computer which is running this executable. Because python is already installed on your computer, python39.dll is already there and everything works fine. The problem is that machine that you're running this program on probably won't have it.
To fix this there are several solutions:
Install python 3.9 on targets' machine (But in this case you don't need to create an executable)
Include python39.dll with your program
For second solution just create a folder and move your executable into it as well as this python39.dll library. Windows will find it because it's in the same directory where this executable is. You can get this library from c:\Windows\System32 folder (Or where all DLL's are stored on your system) and then just copy it into folder with your executable. After that ship not just executable but this folder with library included.
#Stepan wrote in comments that you can also include this library right in your executable by adding --add-binary "path\to\python39.dll" to your command when compiling. The final command will look like this:
pyinstaller -F --add-binary "c:\Windows\System32\python39.dll" myscript.py
Check if the Python version is compatible with the windows version you are trying to use. I was having this problem with an exe I did using Python 3.10. Did it again with Python 3.7 and it worked.
In such cases it could be a solution to use something like auto-py-to-exe wrap for pyistaller: it knows better which option to set for py converting :)
Also, from my exp, in some cases you should modify yout already normally working from terminal Py code before pyinstaller: for example replace exit() with sys.exit() and so on.
I created an exe file using PyInstaller and it works on my PC with Windows 8.1 and laptop with Windows 10, but on computers with Windows 7 it has error
"error loading python37 dll "
and something about dynamic linked libraries.
EDIT:
Error loading Python DLL 'C:\Users\Dell\Appdata\Local|Temp|_MEI16442\python37.dll'. LoadLibrary: Procedure of initialize dynamic linked library (DLL) failed.
It is translated from Polish
Do you know maybe how can I fix it?
I was reading about static linked dll but I dont know how to do it. I am working on Windows only, I dont know Linux/Mac.
This used to happen to me all the time, and it was always because I tried to run the executable file from the build folder while the one that works is in the dist folder.
I had this same issue while compiling the executable with a Pyinstaller command. To fix it, I added the --noupx option and everything worked fine.
I'm trying to run pyinstaller in python exe file in order to someone without python can use pyinstaller but no idea how to do it.
I tried import PyInstaller with other needed modules and convert this script to exe but I got error "The 'PyInstaller' distribution was not found and is required by the application". I also tried to pack PyInstaller exe file but didn't worked too. Python 3.6.5
Any ideas how to do it?
Unfortunately, what you're describing is not possible with PyInstaller. I submitted an issue on GitHub, and this is what one of the developers said:
Nope, this won't work.
PyInstaller internally uses a lot of sub-processes where it is assumed that sys.executable points to a python interpreter (e.g., here); this is not true in a frozen application, where it points to the frozen executable, which ends up in effectively endless recursion.
Even if this was not a problem, the frozen application includes only a subset of python environment, so it cannot be used to freeze an arbitrary script (not to mention the issue of 3rd party packages).
So whatever use case you have for this, it cannot be supported by PyInstaller.
check the requirements for the Pyinstaller from this link initially
https://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/requirements.html
Then install Pyinstaller by,
pip install pyinstaller
To create .exe file use this command for basically,
pyinstaller your_script.py
To run the created .exe
METHOD 1
Do double click the .exe file in your directory.
METHOD 2
In your cmd prompt load in to your current directory or project directory then do
: .\dist\your_script.exe
because the create .exe files are saved in dist folder inside to the project folder with the name of your script file names only.
Background: I have had success in the past installing and using Pyinstaller to transform my python projects into one-file executables. I don't think it is an issue with my source code or pyinstaller files.
Problem: I used a free, open-source library/module called easygui imported into my source code to build an application. The application works perfectly run natively or through the Python IDE. I am pretty sure the problem is that Pyinstaller is not finding the EasyGUI module to import (it automatically includes and compiles any libraries you import in the script).
Actions: My python folder is not in the C:\ drive, it is in the E:\ drive. I'm able to access the pyinstaller path in "E:\program files\python" but it is not reading the easygui library, I don't think. I installed pyinstaller and easygui using pip.
Reading a LOT of pyinstaller's documentation i tried to run it to include a paths dir like:
E:\Program Files Hard Disk\Python\Scripts>pyinstaller --paths
DIR "E:\Program Files Hard Disk\Python" --onefile "E:\Program Files\Python"
It does output the single executable in the build file but does not launch correctly. From what I can see in the console window the brief moment it's up, it looks like an easygui issue. Here is the result of attempting to launch the executable from the command-line:
Here is the compiling in the command window:
Please help