marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze

bdist_msi fails when packages are given as argument to cx_Freeze.setup()

VegarS opened this issue · 2 comments

VegarS commented

Describe the bug
After upgrading from 6.15.13 to 6.15.14 the bdist_msi command fails if setup() is called with a non-empty packages argument.

To Reproduce

  • Download attached simple.zip, which is a minimally modified copy of samples/simple from the main branch.
    • I have copied hello.py into a subdirectory (pkg) and added the subdirectory to the packages argument in setup.py: setup(..., packages=["pkg"])
  • Run python.exe setup.py bdist_msi
  • Build fails when trying to copy a license file to a directory that was deleted two log lines above (see screenshot below)

Expected behavior
Build should succeed like it does with 6.15.13, or give an appropriate error message if I am using the packages argument incorrectly.

Screenshots
Here the build for some reason tries to copy frozen_application_license.txt to build\bdist.win-amd64\msi after deleting the directory:
image

Desktop:

  • Platform information: Windows 11
  • OS architecture: amd64
  • cx_Freeze version: 6.15.14
  • Python version: 3.11
marcelotduarte commented

The setup packages option should not used in cx_Freeze.
Probably you want to use packages.

from cx_Freeze import Executable, setup

executables = [Executable("hello.py")]
options = {
    "build_exe": {
        "packages": ["pkg"],
    },
}

setup(
    name="hello",
    version="0.1.2.3",
    description="Sample cx_Freeze script",
    executables=executables,
    options=options,
)

Naturally, what you reported also seems like a bug, I'll check it out.

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