- - add-data not behaving as expected

[Nmhor Kmhor]

My source location looks like

./

|-->program

      |--> config

              |   file1

              |   file2

              |--> development

                       |--> config

                               |   file3

                               |   file4

and I have --add-data program/config/*;config on the pyinstaller command line.

The destination in the _MEI...folder omits the development directory but includes everything else:

_MEI...

      |--> config

              |   file1

              |   file2

              |--> config

                      |   file3

                      |   file4

Any ideas how to fix this?

[bwoodsend]

If you want to add a directory, you don’t want wildcards. Wildcards add the contents of a directory but not the directory itself. Just --add-data program/config:config gives me the following which I’m guessing is what you want?

_MEI.../ ├── base_library.zip ├── config │ ├── development │ │ └── config │ │ ├── file1 │ │ └── file2 │ ├── file1 │ └── file2 ├── the usual generic stuff

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[Nmhor Kmhor]

Thank you!