Question

I have a PySide app which has an icon for the MainWindow (a QMainWindow instance). When I run the file normally, the icon is visible and everything is fine but when I create an exe with py2exe, the icon does not appear. This happens with cx_freeze also( so I don’t think the problem’s with py2exe).

The app was designed using QtDesigner and converted to python with pyside-uic. I tried both using icons as a file and as a resource(qrc file) and both don’t seem to work.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

kochelmonster’s solution works so long as you don’t try and bundle the Qt dlls into library.zip or the exe. You also don’t need to set a library path if you put the plugins in the base of the app directory.

I still wanted to bundle everything else so I excluded the qt dlls and added them manually. My setup.py looks something like this:

from os.path import join

_PYSIDEDIR = r'C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PySide'
data_files =[('imageformats',[join(_PYSIDEDIR,'plugins\imageformats\qico4.dll')]),
              ('.',[join(_PYSIDEDIR,'shiboken-python2.7.dll'),
                join(_PYSIDEDIR,'QtCore4.dll'),
                join(_PYSIDEDIR,'QtGui4.dll')])
              ]
setup(
    data_files=data_files,
    options={
        "py2exe":{
            "dll_excludes":['shiboken-python2.7.dll','QtCore4.dll','QtGui4.dll'],
            "bundle_files": 2
            ...
        }
    }
    ...
)

If your project uses additional Qt dlls you will have to exclude and manually add them as well. If you need to load something other than an .ico image you’ll also need to add the correct plugin.