Packaging broken with cx_Freeze or PyInstaller

[jaiwardhan]

• Issue: Packaging a simple systray project with cx_Freeze or PyInstaller breaks when building with the following error (last 3 traceback calls) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 342, in _GetModuleFinder finder.IncludePackage(name) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 659, in IncludePackage module = self._ImportModule(name, deferredImports) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 351, in _ImportModule raise ImportError("No module named %r" % name) ImportError: No module named 'infi.systray'

• Steps to reproduce:

1. Make a simple project with infi.systray to show a tray icon (any simple sample project will do)

2. Try to package that with PyInstaller or cx_Freeze to try and get a binary

3. When running the command, the build breaks as it is unable to find the infi.systray package.

• Suspect:

The naming seems to be the problem since it works well with all other pip libraries. Or maybe a namespace issue.

[wiggin15]

I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with these tools to debug the issue. Perhaps you should try to report this issue on their side. I don't know of anything that the package is doing wrong so I don't have anything to fix.

[activatedtmx]

For Pyinstaller use these additional commands: --hidden-import pkg_resources --hidden-import infi.systray

[vudinhtuanhut]

@activatedtmx You're very great!

In the past, I put the following code in my scrip (.py) from infi.systray import SysTrayIcon I already installed infi.systray from pip and checked the installed version with this command pip show infi.systray (Result: Version: 0.1.11); location: C:\Users\Admin\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\Lib\site-packages\ with 2 folders: "infi" and "infi.systray-0.1.11-py3.7.egg-info"). +My OS Windows 7 (32 bit) +Python 3.7.1

*Firstly, I run my program successfully on console: python my_program.py However, I built the .exe file by pyinstaller and ran the .exe file: +Sometimes, I double clicked on .exe and saw error "Failed to execute script" and the program stopped +Sometimes, I double clicked on .exe and with no error but nothing happened. (the program stopped)

*I checked carefully and realized that the error just happened at the line in my script: from infi.systray import SysTrayIcon And it just happened if file .exe (it's okay with running my_program.py from consonle with python)

*I followed your instruction and it's good to build file .exe and the file .exe works well. Here is my full command to build my program: _pyinstaller --hidden-import pkg_resources --hidden-import infi.systray --add-data="Becksport.jpg;." --add-data="becksport__eZD_icon.ico;." --icon="becksport__eZD_icon.ico" -d all myprogram.py

After running that command, I saw values automatically generated in my_program.spec as: hiddenimports=['pkg_resources', 'infi.systray']

To be noted that we need to copy 2 folders "infi" and "infi.systray-0.1.11-py3.7.egg-info" into the same folder containing file my_program.py and my_program.spec. It let pyinstall locate the installed packages. If I don't copy installed packages to the same folder containing file my_program.py and my_program.spec, maybe we need to modify the command line of pyinstaller to let it know where the installed packages are.

One more time, thank you so much for your instruction.

[jaiwardhan]

Solution by @activatedtmx seems to be the solution at least for Pyinstaller. Closing it as per comments.