I'm using Python 3.3.5 with cx-freeze 4.3.3 on windows 8.1.
I'm trying to cx_freeze a program that uses pkg_resources.
I initially had it in my setup file under packages, but when I tried to freeze it the processes stopped with an error Import Error: No module named 'pkg_resources'.
I then moved it in the setup file from packages to includes. The cx_freeze process completed this time but when I tried to start the application I got another error message.
If I go to my IDE and try to import pkg_resources it works fine.
>>> import pkg_resources
>>> pkg_resources
<module 'pkg_resources' from 'C:\\Python33\\lib\\site-packages\\setuptools-18.0.1-py3.3.egg\\pkg_resources\\__init__.py'>
There's a similar question asked here, and the solution is to re-install setuptools. So I downloaded setuptools 18.0.1 and installed it via cmd, but it did not solve my problem and I'm still getting the same errors with cx_freeze.
Any help getting this to work would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: My solution (hack) has been to write the dependency out of yagmail. Yagmail's original _innit__.py...
from pkg_resources import get_distribution
__project__ = 'yagmail'
__version__ = get_distribution(__project__).version
I first put a print statement in there to get the version, and then hard coded it.
__project__ = 'yagmail'
__version__ = '0.4.84'
Though this has solved my problem it isn't really the answer, so will leave this open should someone have a solution that keeps pkg_resources.