Pyinstaller unable to build with jsons not working properly

[DasWildeMaus]

Hey guys, i have a problem, that I can't build a working .exe by using pyinstaller and none of the other problems got me close to a solution with my issue

the cmd command was:

pyinstaller --onedir --windowed --icon=Roulette-Bot.ico --add-data "src/*.json;." --add-data "src/assets;assets" --add-data "src/data;data" --add-data "src/tesseract;tesseract" src\gui.py

but it seems to be unable to work with the jsons properly. If I open the .exe the jsons can't be found

Structure:
Roulette-Bot-Code/
├── .idea/
├── .venv/
├── build/
├── config/
├── dist/
├── logs/
│ └── app.log
├── src/
│ ├── assets/
│ ├── data/
│ ├── tesseract/
│ ├── betting_logic.py
│ ├── calibration.json
│ ├── calibration.py
│ ├── capture.py
│ ├── chip_calibration.json
│ ├── gui.py
│ ├── number_recognition_calibration.json
│ ├── progression_table.py
│ ├── recognition.py
│ ├── series_calibration.json
│ └── settings.json
├── Tesseract OCR/
├── tests/ │
├── test_calibration.py │
├── test_capture.py
│ └── test_recognition.py
├── .gitignore
├── gui.spec
├── README.md
├── README - Kopie.md
└── Roulette-Bot.ico

I tried different --add-data commands but nothing works. Always [name].json can't be found for any of the jsons in the src folder

And there are two other jsons in the config folder, which are working fine. But they are rather unimportant for quick changes so I'd like to have the other jsons directly in the source folder as they are atm.

Thank you

[rokm]

I tried different --add-data commands but nothing works.

What exactly does "nothing works" mean - that you cannot see the .json files in dist/<name>/_internal if you look into that directory (e.g., with file browser), or that your code cannot find them at runtime (for example, because you are using relative paths instead of absolute paths as described in the docs)?

[DasWildeMaus]

ok I fixed all the paths now.

When typing into the cmd:
pyinstaller --onedir --windowed --icon="Roulette-Bot.ico" --add-data "src/calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/chip_calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/number_recognition_calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/series_calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/settings.json;src" --add-data "src/assets;src/assets" --add-data "src/data;src/data" --add-data "src/tesseract;src/tesseract" src/gui.py

it says

Unable to find '[pathToProj]\\Roulette-Bot-Code\\src\\assets' when adding binary and data files.
with pathToProj being the correct folder structure to the project "Roulette-Bot-Code"

so I don't even get to build the project

[rokm]

That error is raised here

pyinstaller/PyInstaller/building/utils.py

Lines 486 to 495 in ec99a08

	# Normalize paths.
	src_root_path_or_glob = os.path.normpath(src_root_path_or_glob)
	if os.path.isfile(src_root_path_or_glob):
	src_root_paths = [src_root_path_or_glob]
	else:
	# List of the absolute paths of all source paths matching the current glob.
	src_root_paths = glob.glob(src_root_path_or_glob)
	if not src_root_paths:
	raise SystemExit(f'Unable to find {src_root_path_or_glob!r} when adding binary and data files.')

when the source path does not point to the file and the resulting glob.glob() call comes back empty. But your screenshot indicates that the directory does seem to exist - does pathToProj perhaps contain characters that would mess up the glob.glob() call (for example, square brackets)?

[DasWildeMaus]

oh yeah indeed it has square brackets damn.
Copied the whole proj to desktop to run the pyinstaller but now the jsons are missing again💀
I ran the exact same cmd as above
pyinstaller --onedir --windowed --icon="Roulette-Bot.ico" --add-data "src/calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/chip_calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/number_recognition_calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/series_calibration.json;src" --add-data "src/settings.json;src" --add-data "src/assets;src/assets" --add-data "src/data;src/data" --add-data "src/tesseract;src/tesseract" src/gui.py

Is that some pathing that I need to adjust when switching the directory? As before on the "wrong" pathing, the jsons were at least copied into _internals?
So basically I moved the proj folder from D:[pathToFile]/Roulette-Bot-Code directly onto the desktop

[rokm]

Well, you are not collecting .json files into top-level application directory anymore, but into src sub-directory; so you can find them in _internal\src.

You probably want to omit src in the destination arguments of your --add-data arguments, i.e., --add-data "src/calibration.json;." --add-data "src/chip_calibration.json;." --add-data "src/number_recognition_calibration.json;." --add-data "src/series_calibration.json;." --add-data "src/settings.json;." --add-data "src/assets;assets" --add-data "src/data;data" --add-data "src/tesseract;tesseract"

[DasWildeMaus]

oh my god that worked thank you so much for your assistance, I learned a lot