pyintaller generated exe file gives error

[smehra69]

My program works fine if I run the program.py file in a python environment.
The command used was:-
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onedir -D program.py

Any code, even a single, one line print command throws this error
Then i use pyinstaller to create an executable using onedir option,
When this exe file is run in a different PC(Not having python installed) I get an error. What can I do to set it right? The error is:-

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib\site-packages\pyinstaller-5.0.dev0-py3.9.egg\PyInstaller\hooks\rthooks\pyi_rth_multiprocessing.py", line 17, in
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 531, in exec_module
  File "multiprocessing_init_.py", line 16, in
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 531, in exec_module
  File "multiprocessing\context.py", line 6, in
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 531, in exec_module
  File "multiprocessing\reduction.py", line 16, in
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 531, in exec_module
  File "socket.py", line 51, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_socket'
[11744] Failed to execute script pyi_rth_multiprocessing

[rokm]

Are you by any chance using the executable from build directory instead of the one from dist (like #5529 did)?

[smehra69]

No. using from dist directory only.

[rokm]

Does the application's dist directory contain any .pyd files?

[smehra69]

This is the \dist\test1 directory listing. Yes there are .pyd files

27-04-2021 16:50 776,948 base_library.zip
27-04-2021 16:41

Include
03-03-2021 11:39 3,399,200 libcrypto-1_1.dll
03-03-2021 11:39 32,792 libffi-7.dll
03-03-2021 11:39 689,184 libssl-1_1.dll
03-03-2021 11:39 188,944 pyexpat.pyd
22-02-2021 17:35 4,457,488 python39.dll
22-02-2021 17:35 27,152 select.pyd
27-04-2021 16:50 2,028,817 test1.exe
27-04-2021 16:50 1,493 test1.exe.manifest
22-02-2021 17:35 1,119,760 unicodedata.pyd
22-02-2021 17:35 101,672 VCRUNTIME140.dll
03-03-2021 11:39 63,504 _asyncio.pyd
03-03-2021 11:39 85,008 _bz2.pyd
03-03-2021 11:39 270,352 _decimal.pyd
03-03-2021 11:39 161,296 _lzma.pyd
22-02-2021 17:35 28,688 _multiprocessing.pyd
03-03-2021 11:39 45,072 _overlapped.pyd
03-03-2021 11:39 28,176 _queue.pyd
18 File(s) 13,505,546 bytes

[rokm]

Hm, can you try adding --hiddenimport _socket to your pyinstaller command and see if _socket.pyd gets collected?

[smehra69]

Did hiddenimport for _socket. Error still there.

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[bwoodsend]

Can you run:

python -c "from _socket import __file__; print(__file__)"

And tell us what the output is?

[smehra69]

Output for python -c "from _socket import file; print(file)" is
D:\PYTHON\DLLs_socket.pyd