libsndfile32bit.dll path

Hi, I was building a package with PyInstaller for a python script that calls PySoundFile functions. The DLLs are bundled into a ‘dist’ folder together with a Windows EXE of the program. However, when I ran the EXE, an error occurred in soundfile.py as it was looking for libsndfile32bit.dll in …_soundfile_data folder though the DLL is already bundled into the same directory as the EXE.

When I looked into soundfile.py, the following section looks like the part that searches the DLL:

try: _snd = _ffi.dlopen('sndfile') except OSError as err: if _sys.platform == 'darwin': _libname = 'libsndfile.dylib' elif _sys.platform == 'win32': from platform import architecture as _architecture _libname = 'libsndfile' + _architecture()[0] + '.dll' else: raise _snd = _ffi.dlopen(_os.path.join( _os.path.dirname(_os.path.abspath(__file__)), '_soundfile_data', _libname))

Is there a better way to go about doing this as I would have to manually create “_soundfile_data” in the dist folder in order for the program to run correctly.

Thanks.

[pihuyadav]

do pip install pysoundfile

[mgeier]

@tritipsteak IIRC, sndfile.dll is only found by ctypes/CFFI if you put it somewhere in the Windows PATH.

Did you try putting it in _soundfile_data\libsndfile32bit.dll (relative to the dist folder)?

There is this hack (see #192) which might work for this:

https://github.com/bastibe/SoundFile/blob/43c457e73984f15ca5c5ad47390dcc8e913da3c1/soundfile.py#L153-L163