PyQtDeploy "Unable to copy file"

Question

First time I build an application for Windows, so I used Python+pyqt5 since I had good experience with C++/Qt5 on Linux.

I'm now trying to get an executable for deployment, but the one generated py2exe complained about missing the Qt Windows plugin. I moved to pyqtdeploy as it seemed to be more specifically designed with pyqt in mind, but after setting the paths I just get an "Unable to copy file error".

Anybody got an idea how to get this to work?

The locations I set are as follows:

Interpreter: C:\Python34\python.exe

Include Directory: C:\Python34\include

Python Library: C:\Python34\DLLs\python3.dll

Standard Library Directory: C:\Python34\Lib

Answer 1

Today, I faced the same problem. After some debugging I found out that pyqtdeploy looks for the correct bootstrap-<version>.py script it wants to use, by looking at the version in the filename of the Python library (python3.dll in our case).

The solution is to use <windows-dir>\system32\python34.dll or <python-install-dir>\python34.dll as the Python library. The former will be present when you install Python for all users, the latter will be present when you install Python "just for me" (see this screenshot).

After renaming python3.dll to python34.dll, everything worked again.