making a .exe with instrumental

[Brieussel]

Hi everyone,

I tried desperately to create a .exe file with python programs that import instrumental but it always failed. I tried with cx_freeze and pyinstaller, but no success until now. cx_freeze always give me a fatal python error initfsencoding unable to load the file system code and with pyinstaller it just opens and crash. Does anyone already succeed to do that and would be kind enough to share his or her setup.py?

I would help me a lot

[Brieussel]

I find a way to do it so I answer to my own question in case someone get the same problem. I made it work with pyinstaller. First I would recommend not to use anaconda, but a classical python installation or pyinstaller will try to install a lot of modules and crash. Then make sure you pip install all the important modules numpy, nicelib, pywin32 ,pint,pyqt5,scipy,qtpy (hope I didn't forget one). And finally you need to add the implicit libraries import that nicelib does but that pyinstaller can't find. In my case for DC thorlabs camera i needed to import instrument in this way: from

from instrumental import instrument, list_instruments, gui  #initialise instrumental the normal way
import instrumental.drivers.cameras.uc480   # make sure the includes are taken by pyinstrumental
import instrumental.drivers.cameras._uc480lib   #make sure that the dll link is made in pyinstrumental

[natezb]

Thanks for providing this information!