Hi all, i've created the script below which i hope can be useful for others
If you find this sort of thing useful i'd be happy to clean the code import subprocess import os import os.path REMOVED_DIR = "removed" os.chdir("../dist/your-application") print(f"{os.getcwd()=}") if not os.path.isdir(REMOVED_DIR): os.mkdir(REMOVED_DIR) # These files are used after the application has been started, so are not detected by our call to subprocess.run PROTECTED_FILES = ["libQt6Multimedia.so.6", "libQt6Svg.so.6"] all_files_in_base_dir = os.listdir(os.getcwd()) selected_so_files_in_base_dir = [fn for fn in all_files_in_base_dir if ".so" in fn and fn not in PROTECTED_FILES] for filename in selected_so_files_in_base_dir: cur_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), filename) new_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), REMOVED_DIR, filename) os.rename(cur_path, new_path) try: shell_result = subprocess.run( "./your-application", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, timeout=2) # If we get here it means the application didn't start, so we need the file, and therefore move it back os.rename(new_path, cur_path) print(f"+++++ We need this file: '{filename}' --- so it has been moved back to the base dir") except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: print(f"----- We don't need this file: '{filename}' --- so it has been moved to the '{REMOVED_DIR}' dir") Here is a link to the source for my own project, this file is more messy though: https://gitlab.com/mindfulness-at-the-computer/mindfulness-at-the-computer/-/blob/master/varia/so_files.py -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyinstaller+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/b5b76573-5f52-4fcc-bebd-6cabf21abc63n%40googlegroups.com.