pyinstaller 3.3

on Python PyPI

• Add Support for Python 3.6! Many thanks to xiovat! (#2331, #2341)

• New command line options for adding data files (--datas, #1990) and
  binaries (--binaries, #703)

• Add command line option '--runtime-tmpdir'.

• Bootloaders for Windows are now build using MSVC and statically linked with
  the run-time-library (CRT). This solved a lot of issues related to .dlls
  being incompatible with the ones required by python.dll.

• Bootloaders for GNU/Linux are now officially no LSB binaries. This was
  already the case since release 3.1, but documented the other way round. Also
  the build defaults to non-LSB binaries now. (#2369)

• We improved and stabilized both building the bootloaders and the continuous
  integration tests. See below for details. Many thanks to all who worked on
  this.

• To ease solving issues with packages included wrongly, the html-file with a
  cross-reference is now always generated. It's visual appearance has been
  modernized (#2765).

Incompatible changes

• Command-line option obsoleted several version ago are not longer handled
  gracefully but raise an error (#2413)

• Installation: PyInstaller removed some internal copies of 3rd-party
  packages. These are now taken from their official releases at PyPI (#2589).
  This results in PyInstaller to no longer can be used from just an unpacked
  archive, but needs to be installed like any Python package. This should
  effect only a few people, e.g. the developers.

• Following :pep:527, we only release one source archive now and decided to
  use .tar.gz (#2754).

Hooks

• New and Updated hooks: accessible_output2 (#2266), ADIOS (#2096), CherryPy
  (#2112), PySide2 (#2471, #2744) (#2472), Sphinx (#2612, 2708) (#2708),
  appdir (#2478), clr (#2048), cryptodome (#2125), cryptography (#2013), dclab
  (#2657), django (#2037), django migrations (#1795), django.contrib (#2336),
  google.cloud, google.cloud.storage, gstreamer (#2603), imageio (#2696),
  langcodes (#2682), libaudioverse (#2709), mpl_toolkits (#2400), numba,
  llvmlite (#2113), openpyxl (#2066), pylint, pymssql, pyopencl, pyproj
  (#2677), pytest (#2119), qtawesome (#2617), redmine, requests (#2334),
  setuptools, setuptools (#2565), shapely (#2569), sound_lib (#2267),
  sysconfig, uniseg (#2683), urllib3, wx.rc (#2295),

  • numpy: Look for .dylib libraries, too ( (#2544), support numpy MKL builds
    (#1881, #2111)

  • osgeo: Add conda specific places to check for auxiliary data (#2401)

  • QT and related

    • Add hooks for PySide2
    • Eliminate run-time hook by placing files in the correct directory
    • Fix path in homebrew for searching for qmake (#2354)
    • Repair Qt dll location (#2403)
    • Bundle PyQT 5.7 DLLs (#2152)
    • PyQt5: Return qml plugin path including subdirectory (#2694)
    • Fix hooks for PyQt5.QtQuick (#2743)
    • PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets: Include files needed by QWebEngine

  • GKT+ and related

    • Fix Gir file path on windows.
    • Fix unnecessary file search & generation when GI's typelib is exists
    • gi: change gir search path when running from a virtualenv
    • gi: package gdk-pixbuf in osx codesign agnostic dir
    • gi: rewrite the GdkPixbuf loader cache at runtime on Linux
    • gi: support onefile mode for GdkPixbuf
    • gi: support using gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders-64 when present
    • gi: GIR files are only required on OSX
    • gio: copy the mime.cache also
    • Fix hooks for PyGObject on windows platform (#2306)

• Fixed hooks: botocore (#2384), clr (#1801), gstreamer (#2417), h5py
  (#2686), pylint, Tix data files (#1660), usb.core (#2088), win32com on
  non-windows-systems (#2479)

• Fix multiprocess spawn mode on POSIX OSs (#2322, #2505, #2759, #2795).

Bootloader

• Add tempdir option to control where bootloader will extract files (#2221)

• (Windows) in releases posted on PyPI requires msvcr*.dll (#2343)

• Fix unsafe string manipulation, resource and memory leaks. Thanks to Vito
  Kortbeek (#2489, #2502, #2503)

• Remove a left-over use of getenv()

• Set proper LISTEN_PID (set by systemd) in child process (#2345)

• Adds PID to bootloader log messages (#2466, #2480)

• (Windows) Use _wputenv_s() instead of SetEnvironmentVariableW()

• (Windows) Enhance error messages (#1431)

• (Windows) Add workaround for a Python 3 issue
  http://bugs.python.org/issue29778 (#2496, #2844)

• (OS X): Use single process for --onedir mode (#2616, #2618)

• (GNU/Linux) Compile bootloaders with --no-lsb by default (#2369)

• (GNU/Linux) Fix: linux64 bootloader requires glibc 2.14 (#2160)

• (GNU/Linux) set_dynamic_library_path change breaks plugin library use
  (#625)

Bootloader build

The bootloader build was largely overhauled. In the wscript, the build no
longer depends on the Python interpreter's bit-size, but on the compiler. We
have a machine for building bootloaders for Windows and cross-building for
OS X. Thus all mainteriner are now able to build the bootloaders for all
supported platforms.

• Add "official" build-script.

• (GNU/Linux) Make --no-lsb the default, add option --lsb.

• Largely overhauled Vagrantfile:

  • Make Darwin bootloaders build in OS X box (unused)
  • Make Windows bootloaders build using MSVC
  • Allow specifying cross-target on linux64.
  • Enable cross-building for OS X.
  • Enable cross-building for Windows (unused)
  • Add box for building osxcross.

• Largely overhauled wscript:

  • Remove options --target-cpu.
  • Use compiler's target arch, not Python's.
  • Major overhaul of the script
  • Build zlib if required, not if "on windows".
  • Remove obsolete warnings.
  • Update Solaris, AIX and HPUX support.
  • Add flags for 'strip' tool in AIX platform.
  • Don't set POSIX / SUS version defines.

• (GNU/Linux) for 64-bit arm/aarch ignore the :program:gcc flag -m64
  (#2801).

Module loader

• Implement PEP-451 ModuleSpec type import system (#2377)
• Fix: Import not thread-save? (#2010, #2371)

PyInstaller Core

• Analyze: Check Python version when testing whether to rebuild.

• Analyze: Don't fail on syntax error in modules, simply ignore them.

• Better error message when datas are not found. (#2308)

• Building: OSX: Use unicode literals when creating Info.plist XML

• Building: Don't fail if "datas" filename contain glob special characters.
  (#2314)

• Building: Read runtime-tmpdir from .spec-file.

• Building: Update a comment.

• building: warn users if bincache gets corrupted. (#2614)

• Cli-utils: Remove graceful handling of obsolete command line options.

• Configure: Create new parent-dir when moving old cache-dir. (#2679)

• Depend: Include vcruntime140.dll on Windows. (#2487)

• Depend: print nice error message if analyzed script has syntax error.

• Depend: When scanning for ctypes libs remove non-basename binaries.

• Enhance run-time error message on ctypes import error.

• Fix #2585: py2 non-unicode sys.path been tempted by os.path.abspath().
  (#2585)

• Fix crash if extension module has hidden import to ctypes. (#2492)

• Fix handling of obsolete command line options. (#2411)

• Fix versioninfo.py breakage on Python 3.x (#2623)

• Fix: "Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing" (#2124)

• Fix: UnicodeDecodeError - collect_data_files does not return filenames as
  unicode (#1604)

• Remove graceful handling of obsolete command line options. (#2413)

• Make grab version more polite on non-windows (#2054)

• Make utils/win32/versioninfo.py round trip the version info correctly.

• Makespec: Fix version number processing for PyCrypto. (#2476)

• Optimizations and refactoring to modulegraph and scanning for ctypes
  dependencies.

• pyinstaller should not crash when hitting an encoding error in source code
  (#2212)

• Remove destination for COLLECT and EXE prior to copying it (#2701)

• Remove uninformative traceback when adding not found data files (#2346)

• threading bug while processing imports (#2010)

• utils/hooks: Add logging to collect_data_files.

• (win32) Support using pypiwin32 or pywin32-ctypes (#2602)

• (win32) Use os.path.normpath to ensure that system libs are excluded.

• (win32) Look for libpython%.%.dll in Windows MSYS2 (#2571)

• (win32) Make versioninfo.py round trip the version info correctly (#2599)

• (win32) Ensure that pywin32 isn't imported before check_requirements is
  called

• (win32) pyi-grab_version and --version-file not working? (#1347)

• (win32) Close PE() object to avoid mmap memory leak (#2026)

• (win32) Fix: ProductVersion in windows version info doesn't show in some
  cases (#846)

• (win32) Fix multi-byte path bootloader import issue with python2 (#2585)

• (win32) Forward DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH through arch command. (#2035)

• (win32) Add vcruntime140.dll to_win_includes for Python 3.5 an 3.6
  (#2487)

• (OS X) Add libpython%d.%dm.dylib to Darwin (is_darwin) PYDYLIB_NAMES.
  (#1971)

• (OS X) macOS bundle Info.plist should be in UTF-8 (#2615)

• (OS X) multiprocessing spawn in python 3 does not work on macOS (#2322)

• (OS X) Pyinstaller not able to find path (@rpath) of dynamic library (#1514)

• Modulegraph

  • Align with upstream version 0.13.
  • Add the upstream test-suite
  • Warn on syntax error and unicode error. (#2430)
  • Implement enumerate_instructions() (#2720)
  • Switch byte-code analysis to use Instruction (like dis3 does) (#2423)
  • Log warning on unicode error instead of only a debug message (#2418)
  • Use standard logging for messages. (#2433)
  • Fix to reimport failed SWIG C modules (1522, #2578).

• Included 3rd-party libraries

  • Remove bundled pefile and macholib, use the releases from PyPI.
    (#1920, #2689)
  • altgraph: Update to altgraph 0.13, add upstream test-suite.

Utilities

• :program:grab_version.py: Display a friendly error message when utility
  fails (#859, #2792).

Test-suite and Continuous Integration

• Rearrange requirements files.

• Pin required versions – now updated using pyup (#2745)

• Hide useless trace-backs of helper-functions.

• Add a test for PyQt5.QtQuick.

• Add functional tests for PySide2

• Add test for new feature --runtime-tmpdir.

• Fix regression-test for #2492.

• unit: Add test-cases for PyiModuleGraph.

• unit/altgraph: Bringing in upstream altgraph test-suite.

• unit/modulegraph: Bringing in the modulegraph test-suite.

• Continuous Integration

  • Lots of enhancements to the CI tests to make them more stabile and
    reliable.
  • Pin required versions – now updated using pyup (#2745)
  • OS X is now tested along with GNU/Linux at Travis CI (#2508)
  • Travis: Use stages (#2753)
  • appveyor: Save cache on failure (#2690)
  • appveyor: Verify built bootloaders have the expected arch.

Documentation

• Add information how to donate (#2755, #2772).
• Add how to install the development version using pip.
• Fix installation instructions for development version. (#2761)
• Better examples for hidden imports.
• Clarify and fix "Adding Data Files" and "Adding Binary Files". (#2482)
• Document new command line option '--runtime-tmpdir'.
• pyinstaller works on powerpc linux, big endian arch (#2000)
• Largely rewrite section "Building the Bootloader", update from the wiki
  page.
• Describe building LSB-compliant bootloader as (now) special case.
• help2rst: Add cross-reference labels for option-headers.
• Enable sphinx.ext.intersphinx and links to our website.
• Sphinx should not "adjust" display of command line documentation (#2217)

Known Issues

• Data-files from wheels, unzipped eggs or not ad egg at all are not included
  automatically. This can be worked around using a hook-file, but may not
  suffice when using --onefile and something like python-daemon.

• The multipackage (MERGE) feature (#1527) is currently broken.

• (OSX) Support for OpenDocument events (#1309) is broken.

• (Windows) With Python 2.7 the frozen application may not run if the
  user-name (more specifically %TEMPDIR%) includes some Unicode
  characters. This does not happen with all Unicode characters, but only some
  and seems to be a windows bug. As a work-around please upgrade to Python 3
  (#2754, #2767).

• (Windows) For Python >= 3.5 targeting Windows < 10, the developer needs to
  take special care to include the Visual C++ run-time .dlls. Please see the
  section :ref:Platform-specific Notes <Platform-specific Notes - Windows>
  in the manual. (#1566)

• For Python 3.3, imports are not thread-safe (#2371#). Since Python 3.3 is
  end of live at 2017-09-29, we are not going to fix this.