Can anyone help figure out how to build a binary for the Python3 port?

[axu2]

@gigajosh

The Python3 port is just a copy paste of your branch, do you know how?

[clach04]

@axu2 I've had great success with pyinstaller on other py3 projects on Windows.

py -3 -m pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller SCRIPT_NAME_HERE.py

I once had an issue that required a not-yet released build, pip installable via:

pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip

[axu2]

Can you try building it yourself? I can't figure it out. Here's my python 3 fork. The exe that gets build just closes immediately when I try, even though running py -3 mangle.pyw works fine.

https://github.com/FooSoft/mangle/pull/45

[clach04]

@axu2 I do NOT have PyQT, so I took your py3 branch combined with my cli branch and created

• https://github.com/clach04/mangle/tree/py3_cli

I then created an exe and posted to:

• https://github.com/clach04/mangle/releases/tag/v0.0.1

Created as described above with Python 3.7.3:

(py38) C:\code\py\mangle>python -m pip install pyinstaller
Collecting pyinstaller
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Collecting pefile>=2017.8.1
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Collecting pywin32-ctypes>=0.2.0
  Using cached pywin32_ctypes-0.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (28 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\py38\lib\site-packages (from pyinstaller) (40.8.0)
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  Using cached future-0.18.2.tar.gz (829 kB)
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Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=3.6.4 in c:\py38\lib\site-packages (from importlib-metadata->pyinstaller) (3.10.0.0)
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for pefile, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for future, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: future, pywin32-ctypes, pyinstaller-hooks-contrib, pefile, altgraph, pyinstaller
    Running setup.py install for future ... done
    Running setup.py install for pefile ... done
Successfully installed altgraph-0.17 future-0.18.2 pefile-2021.5.24 pyinstaller-4.4 pyinstaller-hooks-contrib-2021.2 pywin32-ctypes-0.2.0

(py38) C:\code\py\mangle>pyinstaller  mangle-cli.py
115 INFO: PyInstaller: 4.4
116 INFO: Python: 3.7.3
119 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0
120 INFO: wrote C:\code\py\mangle\mangle-cli.spec
131 INFO: UPX is not available.
137 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['C:\\code\\py\\mangle', 'C:\\code\\py\\mangle']
164 INFO: checking Analysis
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5409 INFO: Adding Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls to dependent assemblies of final executable
  required by C:\Users\clach04\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.exe
5520 INFO: Analyzing C:\code\py\mangle\mangle-cli.py
6666 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils from 'c:\\py38\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks\\pre_find_module_path\\hook-distutils.py'.
6667 INFO: distutils: retargeting to non-venv dir 'C:\\Users\\clach04\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37\\lib'
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16422 INFO: Using Python library C:\Users\clach04\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python37.dll
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[clach04]

Also check out https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs (I'm not sure if this supports py3 though, but it covers more than just exe generation)

[axu2]

Why don't you just pip install pyqt5? EDIT: just tried didn't work with pyinstaller

PyQt4 for python2 was the one that was hard to install.

(Though seeing as how you got it to work without PyQT5 indicates that PyQT5 is the problem).

Just updated all my dependencies, still no dice with

pyinstaller mangle.pyw

[axu2]

To debug this one could try removing parts of the app/strip it down until it works.

[clach04]

Hi @axu2 it looks like there are specific hook-PyQt5.py in PyInstaller, there is a warning in the build log about missing sip. So that would probably be a good place to start looking.

I tried your suggestion, exe builds but runs and exits silently. I don't have an interest in this (I want headless, to run on an SBC) but if it were me, I'd be tempted to debug with pdb (logging statements, etc.) in the generated exe to trace what is happening rather than stripping/removing parts (but that's a valid technique as well :)). Good luck with this, if you think its PyQT5 specific opening a ticket with PyInstaller or upstream PyQt5 may be worth a shot once you have an idea where the error is happening (at the moment the error is getting hidden).

[axu2]

Just tried with 32 bit Python 3 with same result. Thought it was worth a shot since the Python2 version of py2exe only supported 32 bit.

[gigajosh]

@gigajosh

The Python3 port is just a copy paste of your branch, do you know how?

Sorry, haven't been keeping up with my Github notifications.. I'm afraid I was just running the app with python. So can't help with an exe I'm afraid.

[axu2]

Ah well, was hoping you had some insight since I saw PyBuilder stuff in there. I removed that in my branch.