Thank you, Dave. I have tried: "pyinstaller --onedir --add-data wavFiles;wavFiles myscript.py" and it does not produce an error. Further the folder dist/myscript contains not only myscript.exe but also a copy of wavFiles. But when you move myscript.exe to a new folder and doublclick on it, the only thing that happens is that a small window appears for a fraction of a second. (I think it's a command line window but I can't really tell.) Furthermore, my myscript.py is 1951 kb, the same size as myscript.exe obtained by simply running; "pyinstaller myscript.py". So I'm not sure what is going wrong and wonder if you have or anyone else has any suggestions.
On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 7:02:15 PM UTC-4, davecortesi wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Owen Walker <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> When I run pyinstaller --onefile --add-data.wavFiles;wavFiles myscript.py >> (or the same with --onedir) I get this message: "--add-data: invalid >> add-data_or_binary_value:'wavFiles:wavFiles." This leaves me mystified. >> > > I'm going to use some redundant spaces and explicit monospaced font for > clarity. You say you run > > pyinstaller --onefile --add-data.wavFiles;wavFiles myscript.py > > I don't think that's right, that period looks wrong to me. Also I hope you > are on Windows, otherwise the separator is a colon. So try this: > > pyinstaller --onedir --add-data wavFiles;wavFiles myscript.py > > Unless you are NOT on Windows, then > > pyinstaller --onedir --add-data wavFiles:wavFiles myscript.py > > And if PyInstaller completes, as I said, go into the dist/myscript folder > and see what got bundled. > > > I read >> http://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/runtime-information.html >> but couldn't find anything helpful that I could understand. >> > > I didn't understand where your operation was failing. I assumed the script > was executing but not finding the wavFiles. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
