Hi,
A lot of PyInstaller build warnings are harmless so I wouldn’t assume that that is the issue just yet. We’d need to see the runtime traceback to say anything useful. Launch your exe from cmd by entering its path dist\TestScript\TestScript.exe. Your app should launch and still fail but cmd wont close so you’ll be able to see the error. If the error isn’t self-explanatory then copy it and post it here. If you find copy/paste in cmd painful, use the following to get it as a text file: dist\TestScript\TestScript.exe > errors.txt 2>&1 start errors.txt Brénainn On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 8:33:20 AM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Hello. This problem probably has been solved before and if so I apologize > for cluttering up this forum with already resolved questions. I am > relatively new to Python and have only written a few scripts. I am having > trouble creating an executable from a simple Hello Word test script using > pyinstaller. This scrip runs correctly from the command line. When I try > to build it into an executable I get the following. To get to this point I > thought I needed to install the Windows SDK and I see that pyinstaller is > looking in one of those directories when I get the warnings. The resulting > .exe in the dist folder only flashes the command prompt screen then > closes. Can you help please? Thanks in advance. > > > D:\My Documents\St_Walter Info\Video\TallyLights\Software>pyinstaller > TestScript.py > 53 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.6 > 53 INFO: Python: 3.8.3 > 53 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 > 53 INFO: wrote D:\My Documents\St_Walter > Info\Video\TallyLights\Software\TestScript.spec > 53 INFO: UPX is not available. > 68 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths > ['D:\\My Documents\\St_Walter Info\\Video\\TallyLights\\Software', > 'D:\\My Documents\\St_Walter Info\\Video\\TallyLights\\Software'] > 68 INFO: checking Analysis > 68 INFO: Building Analysis because Analysis-00.toc is non existent > 68 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph... > 68 INFO: Caching module graph hooks... > 68 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ... > 2659 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils > 2659 INFO: distutils: retargeting to non-venv dir > 'c:\\users\\tom\\appdata\\local\\programs\\python\\python38\\lib' > 5766 INFO: Caching module dependency graph... > 5860 INFO: running Analysis Analysis-00.toc > 5860 INFO: Adding Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls to dependent > assemblies of final executable > required by > c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\python.exe > 6029 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:\Program Files > (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance > Toolkit\api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll > 6029 WARNING: Reason: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 728, in getImports > return _getImports_pe(pth) > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 128, in _getImports_pe > dll, _ = forwarder.split('.') > ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > 6061 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:\Program Files > (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance > Toolkit\api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll > 6061 WARNING: Reason: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 728, in getImports > return _getImports_pe(pth) > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 128, in _getImports_pe > dll, _ = forwarder.split('.') > ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > 6061 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:\Program Files > (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance > Toolkit\api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll > 6061 WARNING: Reason: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 728, in getImports > return _getImports_pe(pth) > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 128, in _getImports_pe > dll, _ = forwarder.split('.') > ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > 6067 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:\Program Files > (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance > Toolkit\api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll > 6067 WARNING: Reason: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 728, in getImports > return _getImports_pe(pth) > File > "c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", > > line 128, in _getImports_pe > dll, _ = forwarder.split('.') > ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) > 6114 INFO: Analyzing D:\My Documents\St_Walter > Info\Video\TallyLights\Software\TestScript.py > 6114 INFO: Processing module hooks... > 6114 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-distutils.py"... > 6114 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"... > 6183 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-lib2to3.py"... > 6183 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"... > 6183 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-sysconfig.py"... > 6183 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.etree.cElementTree.py"... > 6183 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"... > 6245 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-_tkinter.py"... > 6368 INFO: checking Tree > 6368 INFO: Building Tree because Tree-00.toc is non existent > 6368 INFO: Building Tree Tree-00.toc > 6415 INFO: checking Tree > 6415 INFO: Building Tree because Tree-01.toc is non existent > 6415 INFO: Building Tree Tree-01.toc > 6446 INFO: Looking for ctypes DLLs > 6468 INFO: Analyzing run-time hooks ... > 6468 INFO: Including run-time hook 'pyi_rth__tkinter.py' > 6484 INFO: Including run-time hook 'pyi_rth_multiprocessing.py' > 6484 INFO: Looking for dynamic libraries > 6663 INFO: Looking for eggs > 6663 INFO: Using Python library > c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\python38.dll > 6663 INFO: Found binding redirects: > [] > 6663 INFO: Warnings written to D:\My Documents\St_Walter > Info\Video\TallyLights\Software\build\TestScript\warn-TestScript.txt > 6699 INFO: Graph cross-reference written to D:\My Documents\St_Walter > Info\Video\TallyLights\Software\build\TestScript\xref-TestScript.html > 6731 INFO: checking PYZ > 6731 INFO: Building PYZ because PYZ-00.toc is non existent > 6731 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) D:\My Documents\St_Walter > Info\Video\TallyLights\Software\build\TestScript\PYZ-00.pyz > 7211 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) D:\My Documents\St_Walter > Info\Video\TallyLights\Software\build\TestScript\PYZ-00.pyz completed > successfully. > 7219 INFO: checking PKG > 7219 INFO: Building PKG because PKG-00.toc is non existent > 7219 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg > 7230 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg completed successfully. > 7230 INFO: Bootloader > c:\users\tom\appdata\local\programs\python\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\bootloader\Windows-64bit\run.exe > 7230 INFO: checking EXE > 7245 INFO: Building EXE because EXE-00.toc is non existent > 7245 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc > 7245 INFO: Appending archive to EXE D:\My Documents\St_Walter > Info\Video\TallyLights\Software\build\TestScript\TestScript.exe > 7292 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc completed successfully. > 7292 INFO: checking COLLECT > 7292 INFO: Building COLLECT because COLLECT-00.toc is non existent > 7292 INFO: Building COLLECT COLLECT-00.toc > 12273 INFO: Building COLLECT COLLECT-00.toc completed successfully. > > D:\My Documents\St_Walter Info\Video\TallyLights\Software> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. 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