[PyInstaller,Windows] ImportError (pygame.pkgdata) running the packaged version of touchtracer

[Jochem Liem]

Dear all,

I'm trying to package and run the touchtracer demo as described in the documentation [1]. The packaging goes flawlessly, but when I run the application I get an error:

C:\PyInstaller\touchtracer\dist\touchtracer>touchtracer.exe

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 34, in <module>

ImportError: No module named pygame.pkgdata

I've tried to install pygame and repackage, but it makes no difference. 

I saw something like this used to be a problem on MacOSX [2,3]. However, the file containing the patch does not seem to exist in the current stable release of Kivy [3]. Moreover, from the pygame side, this problem will only be solved in pygame 1.9.2 [4].

My configuration:

Windows 7 Ultimate (SP1)

Kivy 1.8.0

PyInstaller 2.1

Python 2.7.8

PyGame 1.9.1 (first without, then with)

Could it be that this is bug? Or am I doing something wrong? I've tried to reproduce the issue on my Mac, but I get a different error (which I will report in a separate email).

Best regards,

Jochem

[1] http://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging-windows.html

[2] https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/1638

[3] https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/master/kivy/tools/packaging/pyinstaller_hooks/rt-hook-kivy.py

[4] https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issue/184/pygame-osx-implementation-video_autoinit

[ZenCODE]

Hi

Are you sure you are using the portable version of Kivy (kivy.bat) to launch and perform you build, not the default Python? This error is typical of that omission as pygame needs to be pulled from the portable package...

[Jochem Liem]

Thanks, that was exactly the problem. Now I can run both the touchtracer application and my own from the packaged version.

Thanks again,

Jochem

[ZenCODE]

Great! Yeah, I know that one very well because I altered some paths in the "kivy.bat" and then months later forgot. Then when I tried my pyinstaller, I bashed my head against that error for almost a full day. Tried it in a VM, and voilla, worked first time. Then it dawned on me..;-)

[J.A.]

I'm running into the same problem described here. Could you explain the solution? I double click the kivy.bat file, cd to pyinstaller, and then "python pyinstaller.py --name myFile ..\path\to\myFile\main.py". Then I make the requisite changes in the .spec file, and call "python pyinstaller.py myFile\myFile.spec". Then when I go to start the .exe, I get the same issue as described above.

thanks,

J.A.

[Fernando José Redondo García]

I have the same problem. I am desperated :(

What can I do? Could be a problem of my 64 bits system? I need to use Kivy...

[Carsten Thielepape]

Same for me (and yes I initialize with kivy.bat.... :-) )

[James Townley]

I'm running into the same issue and have tired on a couple machines with a couple of different apps.

So I posted a bug here:

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/3308

[Erik]

I got "past" the missing pygame.pkgdata by installing pygame 1.9.1 through the installer on their website, but now the application crashes with critical warning "Unable to find any valuable window provider at all!" and "Exception SystemExit: 1 in 'kivy.properties.dpi2px' ignored.

I tried forcing the use of pygame:

import os

os.environ["KIVY_WINDOW"] = "pygame"

no luck though.

Op vrijdag 24 april 2015 07:46:06 UTC+2 schreef Carsten Thielepape:

[James Townley]

So this was a bug in the 1.9.0 release. Here is a conversation with one of then devs.

LaTeX-Pythonn -     Hello. Has anyone in the community successfully packaged an app for windows x64 using pyinstaller 2.1, kivy portable v.1.9.0 and python 2.7?

matham -            I did

matham -            what's the problem?      

LaTeX-Pythonn -     After packaging i get No module named pygame.pkgdata

matham -            LaTeX-Python, actually it was x86, but it should be similar

LaTeX-Python -      which is odd as there should be no more pygame

matham -            LaTeX-Python, you need to use master for that

matham -            there is a bug that was fixed

matham -            or you can update your local kivy packaging to master as:

matham -            https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/master/kivy/tools/packaging/pyinstaller_hooks/rt-hook-kivy.py

matham -            i.e. replace your local file with that (but you should update to master :) )

matham -            also, make sure to follow the updated sdl2 instructions on the website

[Carsten Thielepape]

Hi Ereirc,

try to set the ms-windows screen colordepth to 32bit