.exe not working
Chorbu opened this issue · comments
I know. Therefore no binaries attached to the release files for windows.
I have no windows and I haven't found out, why pyinstaller doesn't catch all needed libraries for the windows executable.
Dos windows starts and close but nothing else. The program doesn't start.
Did you start the binary from a cmd.exe window? If not, please do so and report any messages.
Greetings! I was able to get 0.6.1 to build and run under Win10 x86_64 without problems with my project directly cloned from this latest repository, no changes.
I built using the Git Bash environment (MinGW64) on Win10, with Python 3.11.4 and a Python virtual enviroment pretty much set up following the process in the Installation Instructions for Ubuntu for nanovna-saver. Everything below was performed in the Git Bash shell in Win10.
cd into cloned nanovna-server directory, then start the virtual environment:
. ~/.venv_nano/Scripts/activate
(After cloning, I reinstall the various components.)
pip install -U pip setuptools setuptools_scm wheel auto-py-to-exe -e .
(Then, confirm the program runs by typing: NanoVNASaver in the Git Bash window.)
Next, build the Windows .exe using either auto-py-to-exe or pyinstaller. The pyinstaller command line created by auto-py-to-exe was:
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --console --icon "C:/Users/t52ta6ek/Desktop/work/nanovna-saver/icon_48x48.ico" "C:/Users/t52ta6ek/Desktop/work/nanovna-saver/nanovna-saver.py"
Using the command line above, the .exe lands in the .../nanovna-saver/dist directory. I then just copy the .exe to my Win10 desktop and done. I did notice some weirdness with the sweep crashing, but after deleting the existing .ini files nanovna-saver created down in the AppData\Roaming, the sweep started working again. Not sure what was going on there and the crash hasn't re-occured - knock-on-wood.
Git Bash - https://gitforwindows.org/
Regarding sweep crash. There was a problem with the sweep.py getter/setter changes - fixed in 0.6.2.
Current problem in building for windows in github actions is that pyinstaller didn't find/bundle the qt libs in the build env, resulting in an 5MB binary which is obviously not containing all needed data.
Python version for windows was to old bummer