Compiling on Windows

Hey Guys,

I am attempting to compile from source on a Windows machine, however, running into some issues. At the moment I am compiling using the following commands:

cd .\aw-watcher-afk\
poetry shell
poetry install
pyinstaller aw-watcher-afk.spec --clean --noconfirm

No errors are prompted and everything appears to build correctly. However, when I try to launch the executable, I get the following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "aw_watcher_afk\__main__.py", line 3, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'aw_core'
[21392] Failed to execute script __main__

I have not used MinGW yet, however, my thought behind this was that the make file is now using poetry so I should not need to do make build and make package?

Please note, this is the raw source downloaded from github, no changes made have been made to code.

How does the Activitywatch team build the windows packages? From what I can find in posts, it looks like you compile on Linux but use Wine to emulate a Windows environment?

[the-architech]

I got it to work guys. Looks like spawning a shell within aw-watcher-afk does not work. However, spawning a shell within activitywatch, running poetry install, then going into aw-watcher-afk, running a poetry install there too, and finally running pyinstaller worked for me.

I was able to execute the aw-watcher-afk.exe without issues.

[xylix]

Did you try to execute the watcher with the virtualenv (so poetry shell) activated?