Pyinstaller cannot access a particular file

[Michael]

Hi there. I am having trouble with this file:

"C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.7_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python37\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\pywintypes.py"

Powershell says:

line 37, in pywin32error

    raise error(exception.winerror, exception.function, exception.strerror)

win32ctypes.pywin32.pywintypes.error: (1920, 'LoadLibraryExW', 'The file cannot be accessed by the system.')

I have tried running powershell as admin and also adding the entire directory to PATH but it still refuses to work. Any help greatly appreciated. 

Regards, Michael

[Jamison Morse]

Hello Michael --

Have you found the solution to your issue? I am having the exact same issue and cannot figure out how to correct.

My info for the versions I am using is below:

408 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.6

409 INFO: Python: 3.8.2

409 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0

I get the same info:

line 37, in pywin32error

    raise error(exception.winerror, exception.function, exception.strerror)

win32ctypes.pywin32.pywintypes.error: (1920, 'LoadLibraryEx', 'The file cannot be accessed by the system')

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Jamison

[bwoodsend]

You're going to have to elaborate a lot more than that. Is this a run time error or a build error? What command / spec file are using to compile? Does this error occur only when trying to import certain libraries?

Brénainn