How to add data files when using the command pyinstaller.py

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi all,

I have been enjoying using pyinstaller.py (the new alternative interface for using PyInstaller).

I've had no problem setting things like --onefile, --noconsole etc., but I'm now trying to add things like additional files to the long command line string (bypassing spec files). Is this possible?

What I'm trying to do is add everything I need to a single external tools configuration in Eclipse. Then, I'll be able to create what I want with a single click. Here's what I have so far:

"c:\pyinstaller.py"

--out=${parent-path}

--onefile

--noconsole

--icon=${parent-path}/icon.ico

${resource_loc}

Any ideas?

Laurence.

[Martin Zibricky]

Laurence Anthony píše v Ne 20. 05. 2012 v 01:54 +0900:

>
> Hi all, I have been enjoying using pyinstaller.py (the new alternative
> interface for using PyInstaller).
>
> I've had no problem setting things like --onefile, --noconsole etc.,
> but I'm now trying to add things like additional files to the long
> command line string (bypassing spec files). Is this possible?

It should be possible creating files. with command line arguments it's
not yet possible. It should be implemented but nobody did that yet.
You are more than welcome to do so.

Martin

[Laurence Anthony]

Thank you for the quick response. I'll look into it. IMOH, pyinstaller.py seems the way forward for building executables.

But, I've now run into a related question. With Portable Python, I'm struggling to return the os.environ['_MEIPASS2'] value to access additional files.

I'm getting nothing returned, even though I can see the tmp folder (with everything correctly inside) and also running debug=True in the build is showing that _MEIPASS2 is set correctly.

Actually, os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] and os.environ['PYTHONHOME'] return nothing either.

Any ideas?

Laurence.

Martin

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[Laurence Anthony]

Hi again,

I've now got a solution which is to use sys.path[0]. This gives the same value as os.environ['_MEIPASS2'].

But, I really don't understand why the  os.environ values are not being set.

Any ideas?

Laurence.

[Martin Zibricky]

Laurence Anthony píše v Ne 20. 05. 2012 v 21:31 +0900:

Please use development version. With the development version you should
be able to get the right directory with data files from

sys._meipass

or

sys.prefix