I've been at this the whole day now and I'm about throw my computer out the window. I made a UI using tkinter, matplotlib and PIL. If I run the code this works perfectly, however when freezing using cx_freeze, I get the following when doing python setup.py build:
c:\Python33>python setup.py build
running build
running build_exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 18, in <module>
executables = [Executable("interface.py", base = base, icon="link.ico")]
File "c:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\dist.py", line 365, in setup
distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "c:\Python33\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "c:\Python33\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 929, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "c:\Python33\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 948, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "c:\Python33\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 126, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "c:\Python33\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "c:\Python33\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 948, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "c:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\dist.py", line 235, in run
freezer.Freeze()
File "c:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 575, in Freeze
self.finder = self._GetModuleFinder()
File "c:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 330, in _GetMo
duleFinder
finder.IncludePackage(name)
File "c:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 579, in Include
Package
module = self._ImportModule(name, deferredImports)
File "c:\Python33\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 288, in _Import
Module
raise ImportError("No module named %r" % name)
ImportError: No module named 'PIL'
My source code has the following in the imports:
import pymysql
import csv
from itertools import groupby
from collections import defaultdict
from collections import OrderedDict
import math
import os
import glob
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
import tkinter.filedialog
import tkinter.messagebox
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.backends.backend_tkagg import FigureCanvasTkAgg, NavigationToolbar2TkAgg
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from tkinter import PhotoImage
import PIL
import win32com.client
And as I said above it works fine. Is there a way ta manually do the import or something similar? I've read on many websites that cx_freeze has issues sometimes importing some dependencies of some modules.
Originally, I was just compiling and got that error and got the error above when clicking on the executable that comes as a result. I tried to add the PIL module directly on the setup.py file and got that same error but on the cmd.
Here is the setup.py just in case:
import sys
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
base = "Win32GUI"
build_exe_options = {"packages": ["PIL"]}
setup(
name = "Link",
version = "1.0",
description = "SLA screen program for CRM.",
options = {"build_exe": build_exe_options},
executables = [Executable("interface.py", base = base, icon="link.ico")]
)
Any ideas on how to get this to work?
Thanks!!
Edit: I'm glad this solution worked for you! I'll move it here from the comments in case it can help anyone else.
Solution: I found a similar error on StackOverflow, and the OP seemed to have found a solution to his own problem. He said that he incorrectly used pip install on a version of a package he was installing, and it made the package download as a .egg file, which seems to cause problems with cx_freeze. Might not be the solution, but it's worth checking out in terms of troubleshooting.
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