Use equivalent of --onefile for the spec file

[mgorzel]

That creates a single executable file instead of a dir (win) and ~halves the size of the mac executable.

[ascherkus]

Does this assume that --onefile (and --windowed?) is being used? Is it even possible

If so, it'd be nice to either:

1. Detect (somehow?) inside the spec file that it's been enabled
2. At a minimum, include some documentation in the file and/or in the README.md

[mgorzel]

Thanks Andrew!

Does this assume that --onefile (and --windowed?) is being used? Is it even possible

Yes, indeed. So now running:

pyinstaller spatial_media_metadata_injector.spec

Should be equivalent to:

pyinstaller --onefile --windowed --clean --name "Spatial Media Metadata Injector" gui.py

Previously, only on Mac a single application bundle was produced.

If so, it'd be nice to either:

Detect (somehow?) inside the spec file that it's been enabled

In the spec file:

--windowed sets console=False. Also, on a Mac it adds:

app = BUNDLE(coll,
             name='Spatial Media Metadata Injector.app',
             icon=None,
             bundle_identifier=None)

Which results in a single app bundle.

--onefile removes COLLECT and moves the binaries, datas and zipfiles to the EXE. That results in a single exe on Win and Mac (inside the app bundle).

AFAIK, --clean is used already if the pyinstaller builds from a spec file.

At a minimum, include some documentation in the file and/or in the README.md

Building a standalone GUI application from README.md instructions should now result in similar binaries as used in the Release (e.g. singe executables), so not sure if updates to the README.md should be necessary? 'In the file', do you mean we could document which parts correspond to the effect of the flags --windowed and --onefile?

Cheers,

Marcin

[ascherkus]

Thanks for the explanation - that clears up everything. Indeed no README.md changes necessary!

[Boscop]

If anyone here is wondering how to turn the CLI into an exe, I did it like this:

pip install pyinstaller==3.6
pyinstaller --onefile --name spatialmedia spatialmedia\__main__.py

Which produced dist\spatialmedia.exe.

It also works with Angelo Farina's fork which supports higher order ambisonics:
http://www.angelofarina.it/Public/Jump-Videos/spatial-media-2.1-HOA.zip

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Btw, is this spatial-media python package compatible with Python 3?
The latest pyinstaller only supports Python 3.