Pyinstaller doesn't find the module.

[herpaderpader]

As soon I create with "Pyinstaller/auto-py-to-exe" an ".exe" file from my script, it stops working. The module is not found it says:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tktooltip\version.py", line 6, in <module>
  File "importlib\metadata.py", line 531, in version
  File "importlib\metadata.py", line 504, in distribution
  File "importlib\metadata.py", line 177, in from_name
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: tkinter-tooltip

I checked it, the module is definitely there under "\Lib\site-packages".

I tried adding it as "--hidden-import", didn't help. I tried adding additional "path", didn't help.

[gnikit]

So how are you installing tkinter-tooltip and what version of python are you using?

[herpaderpader]

Python 3.10.1 on Windows 10

The following way: ToolTip(nameofthebutton, msg="My message comes here.", follow=True)

It works perfectly as long as I don't create an .exe file from it. Then the exe crashes. I see that when I create the exe file pyinstaller does not find the module even though it's there.

[gnikit]

I meant are you installing it from source or with pip?

Basically, you are missing setuptools_scm see the pyproject.toml. These are the build dependencies of the tooltip.

If you are using pip you should have to worry about them and the tooltip should just work.

[herpaderpader]

I'm using pip. I have "setuptools_scm".

[gnikit]

I had another look at the error message being thrown and I don't think it's related to tkinter-tooltip. If you can go into a Python interpreter and print the tktooltip.__version__ that means that there is something wrong with auto-py-to-exe.

tkinter-tooltip uses scm and scm_git for builds and source builds respectively.

[herpaderpader]

Yeah I was able to print it. Still cannot create a functional exe file. I will try it on a different computer, maybe it is the computer.

[RunsOnRum]

I seem to be having somewhat related issues. I'm using Pycharm, CustomTkinter, along with tktooltip. I first get a message stating that setuptools_scm is missing, then packaging is missing, then errors out on unable to find version of my project.

tktooltip has been compiling inside the IDE without issue, without setuptools_scm and packaging.

I am a novice, so the usage of tktooltip is out of my depth if it doesn't work with just including the package path in pyinstaller with --add-data.

Is there any direction that you could possibly give me to get tktooltip to work with pyinstaller? All versions are the latest.

[gnikit]

From the looks of it, this is external to this project. I have updated to the latest setuptools_scm in release 2.2.0 but other than that there is not much else I can do from my side.