PySide6 - windeployqt: " *.exe does not seem to be a Qt executable "

valvador92

Hi!
I read that PySide6 and pyinstaller are not compatible yet. Therefore, I am trying to use windeployqt as suggested here to create my bundle in order to find the dependencies for the executable.

What I did:

pyinstaller -w abc.spec abc.py

and then, as suggested here:

D:\myQT\6.2.1\msvc2019_64>windeployqt.exe "abc.exe"

and I got this error:

abc.exe 64 bit, debug executable
abc.exe does not seem to be a Qt executable.

What should I do?

eyllanesc

@valvador92 You have to copy the plugin styles.

jsulm

@valvador92 said in PySide6 - windeployqt: " *.exe does not seem to be a Qt executable ":

What should I do?

You should do what was suggested in the first link you posted: "On Windows, this can be achieved by running the windeployqt tool from the Qt SDK on the Qt libraries present in the dist directory, for example:
windeployqt dist\app\Qt6Widgets.dll
"
You are calling windeployqt on your exe instead, which is wrong (this will only work with exe generated from C++ project).

valvador92

Hi!

Thanks for the answer. I did it for those ones.

I got this error for Qt6Core.dll

C:\Users\user\Documents\SB5>"D:\Programm\myQT\6.2.1\msvc2019_64\bin\windeployqt.exe" dist\SmartBlur\Qt6Core.dll
C:\Users\user\Documents\SB5\dist\SmartBlur\Qt6Core.dll 64 bit, release executable

However, my executable is now working but the UI does not look correct:

It should be:

To make the UI look correct I had to add the entire plugins folder from PySide6.
Is there a smarter way to only add what is needed inside this plugins folder in order to optimize the size?

jsulm

@valvador92 said in PySide6 - windeployqt: " *.exe does not seem to be a Qt executable ":

To make the UI look correct I had to add the entire plugins folder from PySide6.

What was missing was the platform plug-in, just add those

valvador92

Thanks for the suggestion.
I've just done it. Here are the dlls inside the PySide6/plugins/platforms folder. The UI still doesn't look correct.

eyllanesc

@valvador92 You have to copy the plugin styles.

valvador92

Thanks a lot both of you :) It worked! I can now continue on my project. The blocking point was the creation of the executable. I hope that the creation of the installer with Wix toolset will work as well!