PyDrive not getting included in PyInstaller package

[Eddie Espinal]

I have an pyqt5 app that uses the pydrive library to access Google Drive. If I create the pyinstaller executable file, when I run it the app crashes and won't open. If I comment out the logic to include pydrive it works fine.

Is there a way to include the pydrive library with pyinstaller so it can work properly?

I already tried adding the hiddenimports and nothing.  Does anyone have a solution to a similar problem?

P.s. I'm using `fbs freeze` to create the executable file which under the hood it uses PyInstaller.

https://build-system.fman.io/manual/

Thanks in advance for your help!

Sincerely, 

Eddie.

[bwoodsend]

There are a bunch of json files inside googleapiclient. If I collect those then everything works for me. I’ve no idea how to tell fbs how to do this so I’ll explain how to do it in raw PyInstaller and hope that you do.

Running PyInstaller should generate a .spec file with the same base name as your Python code. Edit it putting:

from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import collect_data_files

at the top and change the datas=[], option to datas=collect_data_files("googleapiclient"),. The rebuild using pyinstaller [projectname].spec (replacing [projectname] with whatever the spec file is really called).

Brénainn

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[Abasi Brown]

you need to add pydrive using a hook, or directly as a tree in the .spec file that pyinstaller creates.  I dont know if you can do the second option using fbs freeze or not.

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