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Pythonic Guy 21421
Pythonic Guy 21421

Reputation: 401

PyInstaller bundles too many packages

So for my update module I have a progressbar system with tqdm.

from tqdm import tqdm
    for i in tqdm(range(3)):
        something()

I want my friends without python to use it, so I use PyInstaller. However, PyInstaller creates executables that are 50mb. I have used Py2EXE.net before, which gave me ~6-7MB .exe files. From the output log, I have guessed that it has decided to copy ALL of my site-packages, and I have about 200 packages.

How can I stop PyInstaller from copying all of my packages, and just copy tqdm?

PyInstaller Log

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1623

Answers (2)

daaawx
daaawx

Reputation: 3473

I have solved this issue by making sure to run pyinstaller inside a virtual environment with all the required libraries included in.

Create and activate venv:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install pyinstaller and required libraries inside the venv:

pip install pyinstaller

Then bundle:

pyinstaller myfile.py --onefile

Upvotes: 0

thefern
thefern

Reputation: 367

I just ran into this specific problem. Tqdm library uses other large modules. If you read the verbose you'll see how many modules is loading. Effectively making your exe 50MB+~

Alternative with very light dependencies. You exe will be around 5MB provided no other large modules are imported by your script. progress module

Upvotes: 2

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