I was always getting some false positives with Pyinstaller from VirusTotal. This is how I fixed it: Pyinstaller comes with pre-compiled bootloader binaries for different OSs. I suggest compile them by yourself on your machine. Make sure everything is consistent on your machine. For Windows 64bit, install Python 64bit. Download PyInstaller 64bit for Windows. Make … Read more
I found a solution. You need to check if the application is running as a script or as a frozen exe: import os import sys config_name=”myapp.cfg” # determine if application is a script file or frozen exe if getattr(sys, ‘frozen’, False): application_path = os.path.dirname(sys.executable) elif __file__: application_path = os.path.dirname(__file__) config_path = os.path.join(application_path, config_name)
The problem is that pyinstaller won’t see second level imports. So if you import module A, pyinstaller sees this. But any additional module that is imported in A will not be seen. There is no need to change anything in your python scripts. You can directly add the missing imports to the spec file. Just … Read more
Newer versions of PyInstaller do not set the env variable anymore, so Shish’s excellent answer will not work. Now the path gets set as sys._MEIPASS: def resource_path(relative_path): “”” Get absolute path to resource, works for dev and for PyInstaller “”” try: # PyInstaller creates a temp folder and stores path in _MEIPASS base_path = sys._MEIPASS … Read more