For clarification, the name of the icon though out my sample code snippet
outlining my problem should be given as "my_icon.ico"
The name "eeg_2022_win" is for my actual larger application. Apologies for
the confusion.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 11:48:25 AM UTC-5 Paul Fishback wrote:
> Edward LOWE ,
>
> Thanks for the responses and suggestions.
>
> I'm still having difficulties. Here's what I tried:
>
> 1. I included the icon location to the EXE as you suggested by adding the
> argument
> icon='\\Users\\MyName\\Desktop\\my_icon.ico',
>
> 2. Based upon the Stack Overflow post you passed along, I included the
> icon in my data via
> datas=[('\\Users\\MyName\\Desktop\\eeg_2022_win.ico', '.')]
>
> 3. I deleted the icon reference in BUNDLE.
>
> This led to the error
>
> *Unable to find "\\Users\\MyName\\Desktop\\eeg_2022_win.ico" when adding
> binary and data files.*
>
> My .spec file and .ico are located in the same directory. It's not clear
> to me whether I should be using absolute or relative file paths, so I
> changed
> datas above to
> datas=[('eeg_2022_win.ico', '.')]
>
> This led to a new error message
>
> *Unable to open icon file \Users\MyName\Desktop\eeg_2022_win.ico*
>
> I also tried including the icon option in BUNDLE, using both absolute and
> relative file paths. This led again to the second error message immediately
> above
>
> I haven't worked with .ico file types before. To create my icon, I simply
> went to an online png-to-ico convertor. Are there particular criteria the
> ico must satisfy in order for pyinstaller to open it and associate it with
> my .exe ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 5:58:15 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9946760/add-image-to-spec-file-in-pyinstaller
>> On Tuesday, 8 March 2022 at 17:00:51 UTC+8 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> I see this issue discussed elsewhere, but various suggestions haven't
>>> helped me.
>>>
>>> I have a working script that I've successfully converted to a windows
>>> .exe.
>>>
>>> Because I'll eventually need to add many hidden imports and data files,
>>> I'm using a spec file, which is as follows. However, for simplicity, I'll
>>> provide a stripped down version with nothing added:
>>>
>>> block_cipher = None
>>> a = Analysis(['my_script.py'],
>>> pathex=[],
>>> binaries=[],
>>> datas=[],
>>> hiddenimports=[],
>>> hookspath=[],
>>> hooksconfig={},
>>> runtime_hooks=[],
>>> excludes=[],
>>> win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
>>> win_private_assemblies=False,
>>> cipher=block_cipher,
>>> noarchive=False)
>>> pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
>>> cipher=block_cipher)
>>>
>>> exe = EXE(pyz,
>>> a.scripts,
>>> a.binaries,
>>> a.zipfiles,
>>> a.datas,
>>> [],
>>> name='my_script',
>>> debug=False,
>>> bootloader_ignore_signals=False,
>>> strip=False,
>>> upx=True,
>>> upx_exclude=[],
>>> runtime_tmpdir=None,
>>> console=False,
>>> disable_windowed_traceback=False,
>>> target_arch=None,
>>> codesign_identity=None,
>>> entitlements_file=None )
>>>
>>> app = BUNDLE(name='my_script.exe',icon=
>>> C:\Users\MyName\Desktop\my_icon.ico',bundle_identifier=None,
>>> info_plist={
>>> 'LSEnvironment': {
>>> 'LANG': 'de_DE.UTF-8',
>>> 'LC_CTYPE': 'de_DE.UTF-8'
>>> }})
>>>
>>> For some reason, I'm only getting the pyinstaller default icon.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>
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