Build.py runtime error: No django root directory found

[Niall]

I get the following error when I call Build.py on my project spec file

No django root directory found. Please check your pathex definition in the project spec file.

It seems pretty self explatory, but placing the django root in the pathex in my project file doesn't fix the matter---the runtime error. I've tried a lot of things (re-configuring, re-makespec'ing, etc) but nothing has worked yet. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!

Python 2.7. PyInstaller 1.51. Windows 7 64 bit. Django 1.4

[Giovanni Bajo]

Are you following this recipe?

http://www.pyinstaller.org/wiki/Recipe/DjangoApplication

The new django project layout in 1.4 is not supported yet btw.

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[Niall]

Thanks for the reply. 

That fixed it alright. I had to modify my project to the django layout, and do the bootstrap thing too.

The thing is though, my project isn't a django project... what reasons might pyinstaller think it is? 

Thanks 

[Giovanni Bajo]

Il giorno 26/mar/2012, alle ore 18:38, Niall ha scritto:

Thanks for the reply. 

That fixed it alright. I had to modify my project to the django layout, and do the bootstrap thing too.

The thing is though, my project isn't a django project... what reasons might pyinstaller think it is? 

It happens because somebody is importing django. It might be a third-party library you are using, and it might be a code-path that you are not actually executing (eg: you configured at runtime not to use django, but PyInstaller can't know that).

If you don't need Django, then you don't need the above fixes either, and the simplest solution is to exclude django from the deployment (see the manual on how to modify the spec file to exclude a specific package).

If you are curious you can bump the log verbosity; at some point, it will start dumping all modules that it analyzes, so that you can find where django is being imported.

[Niall]

Thanks again. Will do some reading on the matter.