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Clement Puech
Clement Puech

Reputation: 115

Kivy - Create package on Windows

Hello everyone and thank you for taking the time to help me.

I am currently trying to create a windows package for my Kivy (1.9.1) app, using PyInstaller (3.1). I followed the instructions from the documentation but couldn't get it to work. So I tried with the demo app 'touchtracer' given as example with the same results. I get the following error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 11, in <module>
  File "f:\temp\pip-build-1elcla\pyinstaller\PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 389, in load_module
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    from pkg_resources.extern import six
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\extern\__init__.py", line 60, in load_module
    "distribution.".format(**locals())
ImportError: The 'six' package is required; normally this is bundled
with this package so if you get this warning, consult the packager of
your distribution.

pyi_rth_pkgres returned -1

This is my .spec file:

# -*- mode: python -*-
from kivy.deps import sdl2, glew

block_cipher = None


a = Analysis(['C:\\Python27\\share\\kivy-examples\\demo\\touchtracer\\main.py'],
             pathex=['C:\\Users\\PC\\Documents\\Njord\\njord\\Nouveau dossier'],
             binaries=None,
             datas=None,
             hiddenimports=[],
             hookspath=[],
             runtime_hooks=[],
             excludes=[],
             win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
             win_private_assemblies=False,
             cipher=block_cipher)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
             cipher=block_cipher)
exe = EXE(pyz,
          a.scripts,
          exclude_binaries=True,
          name='touchtracer',
          debug=False,
          strip=False,
          upx=True,
          console=True )
coll = COLLECT(exe, Tree('C:\\Python27\\share\\kivy-examples\\demo\\touchtracer\\'),
               a.binaries,
               a.zipfiles,
               a.datas,
               *[Tree(p) for p in (sdl2.dep_bins + glew.dep_bins)],
               strip=False,
               upx=True,
               name='touchtracer')

I have tried with Kivy packages installed from pip and with the wheel's method, without success. Does anyone have an explanation?

Thanks again.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1806

Answers (2)

Clement Puech
Clement Puech

Reputation: 115

I managed to find a way to solve my problem. I tried to add the "six" package to the hidden_imports, but then it was the "packaging" package that was missing.

I then installed setuptools 19.4 through easy install and this time, even if "six" was in my hidden_imports, I got my very first error back, plus a whole lot of warnings. I looked around and a few people were saying that there was a problem with setuptools 19.4 and that it should be reverted to 19.2. I did it and then it was kivy.app that was missing, but it was progress.

I added kivy to the hidden_imports in the spec file, which led to another error saying that I had an attribute error with one of my modules. I just had to add other dependencies (sqlalchemy, sqlalchemy.orm, uuid).

Quick recap: if you have setuptools installed, make sure it's 19.2. Add external dependencies to the hidden_imports, kivy included.

Upvotes: 3

Marco Olson
Marco Olson

Reputation: 11

I had to add this line to work around this.

         hiddenimports=['six','packaging','packaging.version','packaging.specifiers'],

Upvotes: 1

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