pyinstaller .exe cannot import a .pyd

[Demetrios Tsillas]

Hi Folks,

I've run into a little problem after several years of happy pyinstalling.

I'm using pyinstaller from Python 2.7.15 installed from python.org on Windows 10.

I've installed it via pip and have seen this problem with the latest version and the dev version.

The problem is that the app cannot import a .pyd library which is in the dist directory. This .pyd is built using swig from msys2. According to a dll dependencies checker the .pyd under the dist dir has everything it needs.

I am able to import this .pyd running python from cmd.exe.

I have run using debug=1 and it doesn't give any indication of a problem right until I see "Failed to execute script".

Running from a cmd.exe produces no console output but if I run from an msys2 console I see:

(master) $ ./InstrumentationBrowser.exe

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "InstrumentationBrowser.py", line 8, in <module>

    import InstrumentationModel

  File "c:\users\viasat\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-zh9rc1\PyInstaller\PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 389, in load_module

  File "InstrumentationModel.py", line 13, in <module>

    from . import _InstrumentationModel

ImportError: cannot import name _InstrumentationModel

I've attached the output from the pyinstaller command and the spec file I am using.

I've also put a zip of the dist dir here: http://immortalsunited.com/files/dist.zip

Like I said I've been a happy user for a couple of years and just started seeing this problem. Unfortunately I can't say what the last working version was.

thanks!!!

-Jim.

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 05.11.19 um 19:17 schrieb Demetrios Tsillas:

  File "InstrumentationModel.py", line 13, in <module>

    from . import _InstrumentationModel

ImportError: cannot import name _InstrumentationModel

Please have a look at <https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki/If-Things-Go-Wrong>

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[Demetrios Tsillas]

I spent some time with VM snapshots to test after each upgrade step and I found that this is not a pyinstaller issue after all.

The problem happens once I do an update of msys2.