I am using a package called Eel to build desktop GUI applications. I am trying to create an executable on windows 11 with the built in command that uses PYInstaller to create an executable.
python -m eel main.py web/ --onefile --noconsole --clean --icon=path/to/icon
I have made some changes to the program since my last compiling and have deleted a file that I will no longer use, and for some reason whenever I try to recompile into an executable I keep getting that file that I have deleted some time ago in the executable and it will not go away. When I run it from the terminal though it works fine and it does not bring up that file once
I tried recompiling multiple times
I tried setting --clean flag while compiling
I tried deleting my venv and recreating it
I tried deleting pycache and recompiling
I tried clearing cache from my chrome browser
I tried restarting my computer and then recompiling
I tried deleting the build/ dist/ and spec file that it generates and recompiling multiple times
I am not sure how to get a fresh build that doesn't have that old file that I made long ago. I wanna say that the old file I made is somehow stuck in some cache and not coming out
I tried a lot of things and nothing worked. Then finally I cleaned out I cleaned out the cache in temp folder in windows, and then it worked and ran fine.
for me the files were stuck in/cached in
C:\Users\myUsername\AppData\Local\Temp
also be sure to clean chrome browser cache as well