pyinstaller command rejects --add-data flag in command line, works in .spec file - Windows 10

[Amir Katz]

I tried this command (which does work fine w/o the --add-data option):

    (venv-374) pyinstaller --path .\venv-374\lib\site-packages --add-data 'resources:resources' .\notification-tool.py

and I get this error:

    pyinstaller: error: argument --add-data: invalid add_data_or_binary value: 'resources:resources'

When I added this in the .spec file, I was able to add my files:

    datas=[('resources', 'resources')],

If this is a known bug, apologies in advance.

Thanks,

Amir

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 16.07.19 um 16:14 schrieb Amir Katz:

    pyinstaller: error: argument --add-data: invalid add_data_or_binary value: 'resources:resources'

Please read the manual and use --help to learn about the correct syntax.

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[Amir Katz]

Hartmut, thank you. A clear case of RTFM :-(. 

I saw an example somewhere that was using the ':' and they did not say it was for Linux (that's my excuse...)

Anyway, I did switch to using the spec file because I added it to git, with the rest of the project, so I don't have to remember the command line syntax every time.

[ttepperg]

Hi,

I'm finding a related problem.

Pyinstaller v3.1 on Mac (Capitan) does not appear to have the --add-data option at all.

Typing, e.g.:

$> pyinstaller --add-data='myfile.txt' myscript.py

Fails with:

error: unrecognized arguments: --add-data=

Typing:

$> pyinstaller -h

indeed reveals that the option '--add-data' is not available under section

'what to bundle, where to search', in contrast to the documentation.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Eric Fahlgren]

PyInstaller v 3.1 is over four years old, so not too surprising that this option is missing.  Update your installation, "pip install --upgrade pyinstaller" and it should appear.

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[abhishek bhatta]

Hello,

I believe the --add-data flag in the command line was introduced in a later version of pyinstaller. It should work in your .spec file with the "datas=" flag.

For more information visit: https://pypi.org/project/PyInstaller/3.1.1/

Regards,

Abhishek

[Thorsten Tepper García]

Hi Abishek,

Thanks for your reply.
That works indeed as I had discovered early.

Cheers,

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[Thorsten Tepper García]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your answer.

> PyInstaller v 3.1 is over four years old, so not too surprising that this option is missing.
> Update your installation, "pip install --upgrade pyinstaller" and it should appear.

I see, my bad.

Sadly, version 3.1 is the most recent one available through MacPorts.
Based on my experience, is not a good idea to mix packages installed
via MacPorts and pip, so I’ll stick to the older version for now.

Thanks again!

Thor.

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 10.04.20 um 07:13 schrieb ttepperg:

Pyinstaller v3.1 on

Thi sis an outdated version. Please use acurrent one (3.6)

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