Can't create package for windows with kivy 1.9 portable

I’m looking to port an existing kivy 1.8 project to kivy 1.9. I’ve just downloaded the portable version and have the application working.

However when packaging the app using pyinstaller and the instructions on http://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging-windows.html the app packages, but on execution immediately fails with error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 34, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pygame.pkgdata

I’ve tried using my old .spec file and generating a new one with exactly the same results.

I’m a bit mystified where this is coming from as pygame isn’t imported anywhere in my application and I thought it had been replaced with sdl2 in kivy 1.9. I’m also confused that the application works when run directly.

Anyone come across this issue or can point me in the right direction?

[jamiecollinson]

Thanks @h-sol & @matham - manually copying libpng16-16.dll gets me past the SDL2 error and the application mostly runs okay now.

I’m still running into the problem that numpy / opencv don’t seem to be being imported and so the application fails on camera start. I’m confused by this as other imported libraries (e.g. peewee) are importing fine. Any pointers?

[pradeepcep]

I originally encountered the following error when using the instructions at http://kivy.org/docs/guide/packaging-windows.html

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 34, in <module>
ImportError: No module named pygame.pkgdata

I am using the portable version of 1.9.0 on Windows 7, 64-bit.

Here is a solution:

Open Kivy-1.9.0-py2.7-win32-x64\kivy27\kivy\tools\packaging\pyinstaller_hooks\rt-hook-kivy.py in a text-editor. Delete everything in the file, copy the contents of https://github.com/kivy/kivy/blob/master/kivy/tools/packaging/pyinstaller_hooks/rt-hook-kivy.py into it, and save it.

Build the specfile again, and you should have a working exe in the dist folder.

Ref: https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/3308#issuecomment-97172322 Thanks @jtownley!

HTH