running pyinstaller from a python script is unecessarily hard!

[openticket]

I have a build script which is written in python. I want to run Pyinstaller from there. This should be easy as PyInstaller? is a python program. However, I'm finding that it is much harder than I thought it would be, mainly because of the reliance on globals and the assumption that the code will be run from a command line and have the working directory be where Build.py/Makespec.py is (it uses this to locate the dat files).

I realise I can workaround this by running the command directly, but it would be *very* nice to just call the build and Makespec functions directly from my python script (maybe just telling it where to find the dat files).

This is an enhancement request; otherwise I am VERY happy with the code!! :) P.S. It would be excellent if you could get this integrated into the Python Standard Library..

Best Regards, Tushar.

[giovannibajo]

I think this would make PyInstaller? harder for no good reason. If you want to run PyInstaller? externally do not import it: just use os.system or os.popen, or subprocess, or whatever.

[openticket]

I can not see how this would make PyInstaller? harder.

When going for cross-builds (#27), some major code cleanup is required anyhow. This would enhance code-quality and would allow for this kind of stuff. And it would allow easly integrating PyInstaller? into distutils (#32).

Using supprocess, etc is not a good solution here.

If you are willed to integrate the required changes, I may volunteer implementing it.

[h.goebel@…]

As of changset:507 this should be solved: Configure, Makespec and Build now all have a main() function. You just have to ensure they are on your PYTHONAPTH.

Hmm, hold on. There are still some dependencies on sys.argv[0]. This still has to be fixed.

[matysek]

In svn pyinstaller is placed in own module PyInstaller? and configure, makespec and build functionality is wrapped into function so I think for current svn version it should be easy to run pyinstaller as you would like.

[menyland@…]

Tried what was in the last comment here.

Moved the PyInstaller? directory into my build directory then execute this code

import PyInstaller.build

PyInstaller.build.main("Myspecfile.spec","./build_output", False)

and it fails pretty early on saying it can't find support\rthooks.dat

So I moved the support folder from the pyinstaller-2.0 into my directory. After I do that it seems to run just fine. I don't know the code well enough to know if there are any other dependencies. But I guess the suggestion would be can the support directory be moved in to the PyInstaller? package directory making it self contained?

[matysek]

just use the script ./pyinstaller.py in the top directory for everything.