Hello,

I believe the --add-data flag in the command line was introduced in a later 
version of pyinstaller. It should work in your .spec file with the "datas=" 
flag.

For more information visit: https://pypi.org/project/PyInstaller/3.1.1/

Regards,
Abhishek


On Friday, April 10, 2020 at 9:25:57 PM UTC+5:30, ttepperg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm finding a related problem.
>
> Pyinstaller v3.1 on Mac (Capitan) does not appear to have the --add-data 
> option at all.
>
> Typing, e.g.:
>
> $> pyinstaller --add-data='myfile.txt' myscript.py
>
> Fails with:
>
> error: unrecognized arguments: --add-data=
>
> Typing:
>
> $> pyinstaller -h
>
> indeed reveals that the option '--add-data' is not available under section
> 'what to bundle, where to search', in contrast to the documentation.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 12:37:54 AM UTC+10, Amir Katz wrote:
>>
>> I tried this command (which does work fine w/o the --add-data option):
>>
>>     (venv-374) pyinstaller --path .\venv-374\lib\site-packages 
>> --add-data 'resources:resources' .\notification-tool.py
>>
>> and I get this error:
>>
>>    * pyinstaller: error: argument --add-data: invalid add_data_or_binary 
>> value: 'resources:resources'*
>>
>> When I added this in the .spec file, I was able to add my files:
>>
>>     datas=[('resources', 'resources')],
>>
>> If this is a known bug, apologies in advance.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amir
>>
>>

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