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Debugging MWE of pyside6-deploy with WebEngine
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I'm trying to use pyside6-deploy with a Hello World! MWE using WebEngine. I'm using Qt's very own pyside6-deploy as opposed to other tools since getting WebEngine to work is a bother and if anyone can figure out how to use Qt's pyside6-deploy on a simple Qt PySide6 app using Qt's WebEngine, it's the Qt Company.
I'm using Python 3.13.12 and PySide6.8.3 on Windows 11, which should be fine based on this Qt provided Python compatibility matrix.
I have no idea what I'm supposed to do to get this working. I thought it would work out of the box, but WebEngine seems to complicate matters based on other people on the internet trying to get this to work. What should I do?
Below is the contents of main.py located in "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\main.py"
import sys from PySide6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow from PySide6.QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEngineView class MainWindow(QMainWindow): def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.web_engine_view = QWebEngineView() self.web_engine_view.setHtml("<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><h1>Hello from Pyside6 WebEngineView!</h1></body></html>") self.setCentralWidget(self.web_engine_view) if __name__ == "__main__": app = QApplication(sys.argv) main_window = MainWindow() main_window.showMaximized() main_window.show() app.exec()I opened a Windows 11 cmd.exe window in the testing_deploy directory, created a virtual environment with python3.13.12, then simply typed pyside6-deploy and enter since it will use the main.py file automatically.
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C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>python --version Python 3.13.12 C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>python -m venv env C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>env\Scripts\activate.bat (env) C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>pip install pyside6==6.8.* Collecting pyside6==6.8.* Downloading PySide6-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl.metadata (5.7 kB) Collecting shiboken6==6.8.3 (from pyside6==6.8.*) Downloading shiboken6-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.8 kB) Collecting PySide6-Essentials==6.8.3 (from pyside6==6.8.*) Downloading PySide6_Essentials-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl.metadata (4.1 kB) Collecting PySide6-Addons==6.8.3 (from pyside6==6.8.*) Downloading PySide6_Addons-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl.metadata (4.4 kB) Downloading PySide6-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl (561 kB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 561.1/561.1 kB 5.5 MB/s 0:00:00 Downloading PySide6_Addons-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl (127.9 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 127.9/127.9 MB 7.2 MB/s 0:00:17 Downloading PySide6_Essentials-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl (72.2 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 72.2/72.2 MB 7.1 MB/s 0:00:10 Downloading shiboken6-6.8.3-cp39-abi3-win_amd64.whl (1.2 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1.2/1.2 MB 5.9 MB/s 0:00:00 Installing collected packages: shiboken6, PySide6-Essentials, PySide6-Addons, pyside6 Successfully installed PySide6-Addons-6.8.3 PySide6-Essentials-6.8.3 pyside6-6.8.3 shiboken6-6.8.3 [notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.3 -> 26.0.1 [notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip (env) C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>python main.py (env) C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>pyside6-deploy C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\config.py:495: RuntimeWarning: [DEPLOY] Unable to find dumpbin. This tool helps to find the Qt module dependencies of the application. Skipping checking for dependencies. warnings.warn(f"[DEPLOY] Unable to find {self.dependency_reader.lib_reader_name}. This " Collecting Nuitka==2.5.1 Using cached Nuitka-2.5.1-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl Collecting ordered-set>=4.1.0 (from Nuitka==2.5.1) Using cached ordered_set-4.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.3 kB) Collecting zstandard>=0.15 (from Nuitka==2.5.1) Downloading zstandard-0.25.0-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (3.3 kB) Using cached ordered_set-4.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (7.6 kB) Downloading zstandard-0.25.0-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl (506 kB) Installing collected packages: zstandard, ordered-set, Nuitka Successfully installed Nuitka-2.5.1 ordered-set-4.1.0 zstandard-0.25.0 [notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.3 -> 26.0.1 [notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 206, in <module> main() ~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 188, in main MainControl.main() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 1160, in main _main() ~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 999, in _main main_module = _createMainModule() File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 146, in _createMainModule main_module = buildMainModuleTree( source_code=None, ) File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\tree\Building.py", line 1186, in buildMainModuleTree module.setStandardLibraryModules( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ early_module_names=detectEarlyImports(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ stdlib_modules_names=detectStdlibAutoInclusionModules(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ) ^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\nodes\ModuleNodes.py", line 961, in setStandardLibraryModules assert finding != "not-found", early_module_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AssertionError: collections.abc [DEPLOY] Exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\commands.py", line 27, in run_command subprocess.check_call(command, shell=is_windows) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 419, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '[WindowsPath('C:/Users/mldic/Documents/GitHub/BEMinstructionals.github.io/dev/testing_deploy/env/Scripts/python.exe'), '-m', 'nuitka', 'C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\main.py', '--follow-imports', '--enable-plugin=pyside6', '--output-dir=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\deployment', '--quiet', '--noinclude-qt-translations', '--onefile', '--noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o', '--noinclude-dlls=*.qsb', '--windows-icon-from-ico=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\env\\Lib\\site-packages\\PySide6\\scripts\\deploy_lib\\pyside_icon.ico']' returned non-zero exit status 1. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy.py", line 152, in main command_str = nuitka.create_executable(source_file=config.source_file, extra_args=config.extra_args, ...<5 lines>... permissions=config.permissions, mode=config.mode) File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\nuitka_helper.py", line 178, in create_executable command_str, _ = run_command(command=command, dry_run=dry_run) ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\commands.py", line 33, in run_command raise RuntimeError( ...<2 lines>... ) RuntimeError: [DEPLOY] Command C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Scripts\python.exe -m nuitka C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\main.py --follow-imports --enable-plugin=pyside6 --output-dir=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\deployment --quiet --noinclude-qt-translations --onefile --noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o --noinclude-dlls=*.qsb --windows-icon-from-ico=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\pyside_icon.ico failed with error Command '[WindowsPath('C:/Users/mldic/Documents/GitHub/BEMinstructionals.github.io/dev/testing_deploy/env/Scripts/python.exe'), '-m', 'nuitka', 'C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\main.py', '--follow-imports', '--enable-plugin=pyside6', '--output-dir=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\deployment', '--quiet', '--noinclude-qt-translations', '--onefile', '--noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o', '--noinclude-dlls=*.qsb', '--windows-icon-from-ico=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\env\\Lib\\site-packages\\PySide6\\scripts\\deploy_lib\\pyside_icon.ico']' returned non-zero exit status 1. and return_code1 ERROR:root:[DEPLOY] Executable not found at C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\deployment\main.exe (env) C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>deactivate C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>A pysidedeploy.spec file was created with the below contents.
[app] # title of your application title = pyside_app_demo # project directory. the general assumption is that project_dir is the parent directory # of input_file project_dir = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy # source file path input_file = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\main.py # directory where the executable output is generated exec_directory = . # path to .pyproject project file project_file = # application icon icon = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\pyside_icon.ico [python] # python path python_path = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Scripts\python.exe # python packages to install packages = Nuitka==2.5.1 # buildozer = for deploying Android application android_packages = buildozer==1.5.0,cython==0.29.33 [qt] # comma separated path to qml files required # normally all the qml files required by the project are added automatically qml_files = # excluded qml plugin binaries excluded_qml_plugins = # qt modules used. comma separated modules = WebEngineWidgets,Widgets # qt plugins used by the application. only relevant for desktop deployment. for qt plugins used # in android application see [android][plugins] plugins = styles [android] # path to pyside wheel wheel_pyside = # path to shiboken wheel wheel_shiboken = # plugins to be copied to libs folder of the packaged application. comma separated plugins = [nuitka] # usage description for permissions requested by the app as found in the info.plist file # of the app bundle # eg = extra_args = --show-modules --follow-stdlib macos.permissions = # mode of using nuitka. accepts standalone or onefile. default is onefile. mode = onefile # (str) specify any extra nuitka arguments extra_args = --quiet --noinclude-qt-translations [buildozer] # build mode # possible options = [release, debug] # release creates an aab, while debug creates an apk mode = debug # contrains path to pyside6 and shiboken6 recipe dir recipe_dir = # path to extra qt android jars to be loaded by the application jars_dir = # if empty uses default ndk path downloaded by buildozer ndk_path = # if empty uses default sdk path downloaded by buildozer sdk_path = # other libraries to be loaded. comma separated. # loaded at app startup local_libs = # architecture of deployed platform # possible values = ["aarch64", "armv7a", "i686", "x86_64"] arch =There was also a nuitka-crash-report.xml file created with the below contents.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf8'?> <nuitka-compilation-report nuitka_version="2.5.1" nuitka_commercial_version="not installed" completion="exception"> <exception exception_type="AssertionError" exception_value="collections.abc"> Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 1160, in main _main() ~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 999, in _main main_module = _createMainModule() File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 146, in _createMainModule main_module = buildMainModuleTree( source_code=None, ) File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\tree\Building.py", line 1186, in buildMainModuleTree module.setStandardLibraryModules( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ early_module_names=detectEarlyImports(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ stdlib_modules_names=detectStdlibAutoInclusionModules(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ) ^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\nodes\ModuleNodes.py", line 961, in setStandardLibraryModules assert finding != "not-found", early_module_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AssertionError: collections.abc </exception> <performance> <memory_usage name="after_launch" value="40271872" /> </performance> <data_composer blob_size="None" /> <command_line> <option value="C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\main.py" /> <option value="--follow-imports" /> <option value="--enable-plugin=pyside6" /> <option value="--output-dir=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\deployment" /> <option value="--quiet" /> <option value="--noinclude-qt-translations" /> <option value="--onefile" /> <option value="--noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o" /> <option value="--noinclude-dlls=*.qsb" /> <option value="--windows-icon-from-ico=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\pyside_icon.ico" /> </command_line> <plugins> <plugin name="anti-bloat" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="data-files" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="delvewheel" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="dll-files" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="eventlet" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="gevent" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="gi" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="glfw" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="implicit-imports" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="kivy" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="matplotlib" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="multiprocessing" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="options-nanny" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="pbr-compat" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="pkg-resources" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="playwright" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="pyside6" user_enabled="yes" /> <plugin name="pywebview" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="spacy" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="transformers" user_enabled="no" /> </plugins> <distributions /> <python python_exe="${sys.prefix}\Scripts\python.exe" python_flavor="CPython Official" python_version="3.13.12" os_name="Windows" os_release="11" arch_name="x86_64" filesystem_encoding="utf-8"> <search_path> <path value="${cwd}" /> <path value="${sys.real_prefix}\DLLs" /> <path value="${sys.real_prefix}\Lib" /> <path value="${sys.real_prefix}" /> <path value="${sys.prefix}" /> <path value="${sys.prefix}\Lib\site-packages" /> </search_path> </python> <output run_filename="${cwd}\deployment\main.exe" /> </nuitka-compilation-report>To reiterate, I have no idea what I'm supposed to do to get this working. I thought it would work out of the box, but WebEngine seems to complicate matters based on other people on the internet trying to get this to work. What should I do?
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So not exactly a solution, but pyinstaller on windows is working at this time, although it often breaks with new releases of pyside and different operating systems.
Including all the stuff for WebEngine is a chronic problem for things like nuitka and pyinstaller because pyside can change the location of WebEngine stuff and different operating systems need stuff in different places. Code signing is also a chronic problem.
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Hi,
I haven't yet used that tool, especially on Windows but did you see the warning about dumpbin not being found ?
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I got dumpbin by installing Visual Studio and the "Desktop development with C++" workload with the Visual Studio Installer. Then I found dumpbin.exe and modified the path. So that error went away.
Still has similar errors with nuitka though. Way over my head how to fix those.
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(env) C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy>pyside6-deploy Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 206, in <module> main() ~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 188, in main MainControl.main() ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 1160, in main _main() ~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 999, in _main main_module = _createMainModule() File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 146, in _createMainModule main_module = buildMainModuleTree( source_code=None, ) File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\tree\Building.py", line 1186, in buildMainModuleTree module.setStandardLibraryModules( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ early_module_names=detectEarlyImports(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ stdlib_modules_names=detectStdlibAutoInclusionModules(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ) ^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\nodes\ModuleNodes.py", line 961, in setStandardLibraryModules assert finding != "not-found", early_module_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AssertionError: collections.abc [DEPLOY] Exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\commands.py", line 27, in run_command subprocess.check_call(command, shell=is_windows) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python313\Lib\subprocess.py", line 419, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '[WindowsPath('C:/Users/mldic/Documents/GitHub/BEMinstructionals.github.io/dev/testing_deploy/env/Scripts/python.exe'), '-m', 'nuitka', 'C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\main.py', '--follow-imports', '--enable-plugin=pyside6', '--output-dir=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\deployment', '--quiet', '--noinclude-qt-translations', '--onefile', '--noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o', '--noinclude-dlls=*.qsb', '--windows-icon-from-ico=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\env\\Lib\\site-packages\\PySide6\\scripts\\deploy_lib\\pyside_icon.ico', '--include-qt-plugins=networkinformation,platforminputcontexts,position,qmltooling']' returned non-zero exit status 1. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy.py", line 152, in main command_str = nuitka.create_executable(source_file=config.source_file, extra_args=config.extra_args, ...<5 lines>... permissions=config.permissions, mode=config.mode) File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\nuitka_helper.py", line 178, in create_executable command_str, _ = run_command(command=command, dry_run=dry_run) ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\commands.py", line 33, in run_command raise RuntimeError( ...<2 lines>... ) RuntimeError: [DEPLOY] Command C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Scripts\python.exe -m nuitka C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\main.py --follow-imports --enable-plugin=pyside6 --output-dir=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\deployment --quiet --noinclude-qt-translations --onefile --noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o --noinclude-dlls=*.qsb --windows-icon-from-ico=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\pyside_icon.ico --include-qt-plugins=networkinformation,platforminputcontexts,position,qmltooling failed with error Command '[WindowsPath('C:/Users/mldic/Documents/GitHub/BEMinstructionals.github.io/dev/testing_deploy/env/Scripts/python.exe'), '-m', 'nuitka', 'C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\main.py', '--follow-imports', '--enable-plugin=pyside6', '--output-dir=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\deployment', '--quiet', '--noinclude-qt-translations', '--onefile', '--noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o', '--noinclude-dlls=*.qsb', '--windows-icon-from-ico=C:\\Users\\mldic\\Documents\\GitHub\\BEMinstructionals.github.io\\dev\\testing_deploy\\env\\Lib\\site-packages\\PySide6\\scripts\\deploy_lib\\pyside_icon.ico', '--include-qt-plugins=networkinformation,platforminputcontexts,position,qmltooling']' returned non-zero exit status 1. and return_code1 ERROR:root:[DEPLOY] Executable not found at C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\deployment\main.exepysidedeploy.spec
[app] # title of your application title = pyside_app_demo # project directory. the general assumption is that project_dir is the parent directory # of input_file project_dir = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy # source file path input_file = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\main.py # directory where the executable output is generated exec_directory = . # path to .pyproject project file project_file = # application icon icon = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\pyside_icon.ico [python] # python path python_path = C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Scripts\python.exe # python packages to install packages = Nuitka==2.5.1 # buildozer = for deploying Android application android_packages = buildozer==1.5.0,cython==0.29.33 [qt] # comma separated path to qml files required # normally all the qml files required by the project are added automatically qml_files = # excluded qml plugin binaries excluded_qml_plugins = # qt modules used. comma separated modules = QmlModels,Network,QuickWidgets,Widgets,Gui,WebEngineCore,Positioning,PrintSupport,Quick,Core,OpenGL,WebEngineWidgets,Qml,WebChannel,QmlWorkerScript,QmlMeta # qt plugins used by the application. only relevant for desktop deployment. for qt plugins used # in android application see [android][plugins] plugins = scenegraph,networkinformation,printsupport,egldeviceintegrations,accessiblebridge,platforms/darwin,platforminputcontexts,xcbglintegrations,tls,generic,iconengines,qmltooling,platformthemes,imageformats,networkaccess,platforms,position,styles [android] # path to pyside wheel wheel_pyside = # path to shiboken wheel wheel_shiboken = # plugins to be copied to libs folder of the packaged application. comma separated plugins = [nuitka] # usage description for permissions requested by the app as found in the info.plist file # of the app bundle # eg = extra_args = --show-modules --follow-stdlib macos.permissions = # mode of using nuitka. accepts standalone or onefile. default is onefile. mode = onefile # (str) specify any extra nuitka arguments extra_args = --quiet --noinclude-qt-translations [buildozer] # build mode # possible options = [release, debug] # release creates an aab, while debug creates an apk mode = debug # contrains path to pyside6 and shiboken6 recipe dir recipe_dir = # path to extra qt android jars to be loaded by the application jars_dir = # if empty uses default ndk path downloaded by buildozer ndk_path = # if empty uses default sdk path downloaded by buildozer sdk_path = # other libraries to be loaded. comma separated. # loaded at app startup local_libs = # architecture of deployed platform # possible values = ["aarch64", "armv7a", "i686", "x86_64"] arch =nuitka-crash-report.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf8'?> <nuitka-compilation-report nuitka_version="2.5.1" nuitka_commercial_version="not installed" completion="exception"> <exception exception_type="AssertionError" exception_value="collections.abc"> Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 1160, in main _main() ~~~~~^^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 999, in _main main_module = _createMainModule() File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 146, in _createMainModule main_module = buildMainModuleTree( source_code=None, ) File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\tree\Building.py", line 1186, in buildMainModuleTree module.setStandardLibraryModules( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ early_module_names=detectEarlyImports(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ stdlib_modules_names=detectStdlibAutoInclusionModules(), ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ) ^ File "C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\nuitka\nodes\ModuleNodes.py", line 961, in setStandardLibraryModules assert finding != "not-found", early_module_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AssertionError: collections.abc </exception> <performance> <memory_usage name="after_launch" value="39583744" /> </performance> <data_composer blob_size="None" /> <command_line> <option value="C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\main.py" /> <option value="--follow-imports" /> <option value="--enable-plugin=pyside6" /> <option value="--output-dir=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\deployment" /> <option value="--quiet" /> <option value="--noinclude-qt-translations" /> <option value="--onefile" /> <option value="--noinclude-dlls=*.cpp.o" /> <option value="--noinclude-dlls=*.qsb" /> <option value="--windows-icon-from-ico=C:\Users\mldic\Documents\GitHub\BEMinstructionals.github.io\dev\testing_deploy\env\Lib\site-packages\PySide6\scripts\deploy_lib\pyside_icon.ico" /> <option value="--include-qt-plugins=networkinformation,platforminputcontexts,position,qmltooling" /> </command_line> <plugins> <plugin name="anti-bloat" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="data-files" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="delvewheel" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="dll-files" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="eventlet" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="gevent" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="gi" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="glfw" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="implicit-imports" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="kivy" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="matplotlib" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="multiprocessing" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="options-nanny" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="pbr-compat" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="pkg-resources" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="playwright" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="pyside6" user_enabled="yes" /> <plugin name="pywebview" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="spacy" user_enabled="no" /> <plugin name="transformers" user_enabled="no" /> </plugins> <distributions /> <python python_exe="${sys.prefix}\Scripts\python.exe" python_flavor="CPython Official" python_version="3.13.12" os_name="Windows" os_release="11" arch_name="x86_64" filesystem_encoding="utf-8"> <search_path> <path value="${cwd}" /> <path value="${sys.real_prefix}\DLLs" /> <path value="${sys.real_prefix}\Lib" /> <path value="${sys.real_prefix}" /> <path value="${sys.prefix}" /> <path value="${sys.prefix}\Lib\site-packages" /> </search_path> </python> <output run_filename="${cwd}\deployment\main.exe" /> </nuitka-compilation-report>I haven't found much on pyside6-deploy, and running with nuikta directly gets the same trace.
Getting WebEngine into an installer is difficult because there's a separate executable and other things for Chromium. Some people have had success by manually copying some files rather than relying on a tool like pyside6-deploy. I'd rather not do that though.
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So not exactly a solution, but pyinstaller on windows is working at this time, although it often breaks with new releases of pyside and different operating systems.
Including all the stuff for WebEngine is a chronic problem for things like nuitka and pyinstaller because pyside can change the location of WebEngine stuff and different operating systems need stuff in different places. Code signing is also a chronic problem.
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M Mitchal Dichter has marked this topic as solved on
