How is the app deciding where to look for the PNG files?
It sounds like it may be using the current working dir -- which is not
ideal.
If you have control of that code, you'll want to use another way to
find them.
I tend to put that kind of thing inside a python package, and use a path
relative to a __file__ in a code file.
You also might be able to use:
import sysif getattr(sys, 'frozen', False) and hasattr(sys, '_MEIPASS'):
print('running in a PyInstaller bundle')else:
print('running in a normal Python process')
and then `sys.executable`
-CHB
On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM Karen L <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I packaged some png files but it is not shown in the app, except when I
> start the app from the _internal directory. i.e. /path/to/_internal>
> ../workflow I put everything in the same directory trying to make it work,
> but it is not working. Is this a bug? Following is how I make the
> executable and the png files are inside the _internal directory.
>
> pyinstaller -y --clean --onefile --onedir --add-data myapp/resources:.
> --icon myapp.icns myapp/workflow.py
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