ValueError: Invalid Windows resource specifier

[Paul McDermott]

I am trying to create a one file executable, using the following pyInstaller command:

pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --windowed --icon "D:/Work/Python/cfepy310/xl/cfegui/Resources/Conform-e_48_1.ico" --name "Conform-e" --version-file "D:/Work/Python/cfepy310/xl/cfegui/cfe_versionfile.txt" --resource "D:/Work/Python/cfepy310/xl/cfegui/cfe_Resource_rc.py"  "D:/Work/Python/cfepy310/xl/cfegui/cfe_MainForm.py"

(cfepy310) D:\Work\Python\cfepy310\xl\cfegui>auto-py-to-exe
137961 ERROR: An error occurred while packaging
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\auto_py_to_exe\packaging.py", line 131, in package
    run_pyinstaller()
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 189, in run
    run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 61, in run_build
    PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 1033, in main
    build(specfile, distpath, workpath, clean_build)
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 973, in build
    exec(code, spec_namespace)
  File "C:\Users\icnte\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpde053j7h\Conform-e.spec", line 18, in <module>
    exe = EXE(
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\api.py", line 625, in __init__
    self.__postinit__()
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\datastruct.py", line 184, in __postinit__
    self.assemble()
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\api.py", line 746, in assemble
    self._retry_operation(self._copy_windows_resource, build_name, resource)
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\api.py", line 992, in _retry_operation
    return func(*args)
  File "D:\work\Python\cfepy310\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\api.py", line 915, in _copy_windows_resource
    raise ValueError(
ValueError: Invalid Windows resource specifier 'D:\\\\Work\\\\Python\\\\cfepy310\\\\xl\\\\cfegui\\\\cfe_Resource_rc.py'! For arbitrary data file, the format is 'filename,type,name,[language]'!

My resource file seems to work because I can run the .py and everything seems to be there icons,pdf files and such.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Paul

[Paul McDermott]

Upgraded auto-py-to-exe and pyinstaller to the latest versions.

Name: pyinstaller
Version: 6.1.0
Summary: PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package.
Home-page: https://www.pyinstaller.org/

Requires: altgraph, packaging, pefile, pyinstaller-hooks-contrib, pywin32-ctypes, setuptools
Required-by: auto-py-to-exe
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Name: auto-py-to-exe
Version: 2.41.0
Summary: Converts .py to .exe using a simple graphical interface.
Home-page: https://github.com/brentvollebregt/auto-py-to-exe
Requires: Eel, pyinstaller
Required-by: