When trying to deploy a Kivy App using PyInstaller, I am getting Permission Denied errors even when using and Administrator CMD. The folder has all open editing options for every user. Python has firewall access. How to fix this?
PS C:\Users\theguy\Documents\Python\myapp-build> python -m PyInstaller --name "MyApp" "./"
422 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.3.1
422 INFO: Python: 3.6.5
424 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
425 INFO: wrote C:\Users\theguy\Documents\Python\myapp-build\myapp.spec
426 INFO: UPX is not available.
427 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['C:\\Users\\theguy\\Documents\\Python',
'C:\\Users\\theguy\\Documents\\Python\\myapp-build']
428 INFO: checking Analysis
428 INFO: Building Analysis because out00-Analysis.toc is non existent
429 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
432 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
434 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
3859 INFO: running Analysis out00-Analysis.toc
3861 INFO: Adding Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls to dependent assemblies of final executable
required by C:\Anaconda3\python.exe
4398 INFO: Caching module hooks...
4402 INFO: Analyzing C:\Users\btdav\Documents\Python\
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 101, in <module>
run()
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 94, in run
run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 46, in run_build
PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 791, in main
build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 737, in build
exec(text, spec_namespace)
File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 213, in __init__
self.__postinit__()
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\datastruct.py", line 161, in __postinit__
self.assemble()
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 415, in assemble
priority_scripts.append(self.graph.run_script(script))
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\analysis.py", line 201, in run_script
self._top_script_node = super(PyiModuleGraph, self).run_script(pathname)
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\lib\modulegraph\modulegraph.py", line 1334, in run_script
with open(pathname, 'rb') as fp:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Users\\theguy\\Documents\\Python\\myapp-build'
Trick is to make a new directory outside of the one you are building, and then make the build reference the main.py of the Kivy app like in the code below. This fixes permission errors, even from a regular CMD.
PS C:\Users\theguy\Documents\Python\myapp-build> python -m PyInstaller --name "MyApp" "C:\Users\theguy\Documents\Python\myapp\main.py"