[PYTHON] EXE the application created with PyQt5 with PyInstaller

Roughly speaking

--I was addicted to converting a GUI application using PyQt5 into a Windows EXE with PyInstaller. --By specifying the PyQt path at build time, the build will pass

Status

I was creating a GUI application using PyQt5. The application analyzes the file dragged and dropped into the window and outputs the file in Excel format. When I used PyInstaller to make it into an EXE for distribution, the build succeeded but it could not be executed.

The run-time error message is *** failed to execute script pyi_rth_qt5plugins ***

About the environment

• Windows 10
• Python (3.5.3)
  • future (0.16.0)
  • PyInstaller (3.2.1)
  • pypiwin32 (219)
  • PyQt5 (5.8.1)
  • sip (4.19.1)
  • XlsxWriter (0.9.6)

Countermeasures

Set the PyQt path when running pyinstaller.

Example

pyinstaller simple_tool.py --onefile --noconsole -p "C:\Users\User name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5\Qt\bin"

Specify the directory of PyQt library files under site-packages with -p.

The directory where Python is installed depends on the environment, so refer to it as appropriate.