Not including tkinter for standalone exe

Cannot create standalone exe for scripts using tkinter.

• nuitka pip installation
• Compiler installed VS 2017
• output of nuitka generation:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.665]                                          
                                                                                    
Jorj@ARRAKIS C:\Users\Jorj\Desktop\test                                             
$ python -m nuitka --portable test.py                                               
                                                                                    
Jorj@ARRAKIS C:\Users\Jorj\Desktop\test                                             
$ python -m nuitka --version                                                        
0.5.33                                                                              
Python: 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:59:51) [MSC v.1914 64 bit (AMD64)]
Executable: C:\Users\Jorj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.exe         
OS: Windows                                                                         
Arch: x86_64                                                                        

• Script:

import tkinter
root = tkinter.Tk()
root.bbox()
root.bell()

Output when running test.exe:

Jorj@ARRAKIS C:\Users\Jorj\Desktop\test\test.dist                                                                                                                                                                                              
$ test.exe                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                                                                             
 File "C:\Users\Jorj\Desktop\test\test.dist\test.py", line 2, in <module>                                                                                                                                                                     
  File "C:\Users\Jorj\Desktop\test\test.dist\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2020, in __init__                                                                                                                                                      
_tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:                                                                                                                                                                  
    {C:\Users\Jorj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\tcl} C:/Users/Jorj/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python37/tcl8.6 C:/Users/Jorj/Desktop/test/lib/tcl8.6 C:/Users/Jorj/Desktop/test/lib/tcl8.6 C:/Users/Jorj/Desktop/lib/tcl8.6 C:/User
s/Jorj/Desktop/test/library C:/Users/Jorj/Desktop/library C:/Users/Jorj/Desktop/tcl8.6.8/library C:/Users/Jorj/tcl8.6.8/library                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly. 

Problem goes away when I (e.g.) copy the two directories C:\Users\Jorj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\tcl\tcl8.6 and C:\Users\Jorj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\tcl\tk8.6 side-by side in a common directory called lib on the same level as test.dist.

What am I missing / doing wrong?

[deajan]

@JorjMcKie Indeed, I’m just concerned about using opensource which may be freely redistributed, hence trying to avoir Microsoft tools here. I think the results are the same:

objdump -p c:\Python37-32\python37.dll | findstr "DLL Name:"
        DLL Name: VERSION.dll
        DLL Name: SHLWAPI.dll
        DLL Name: WS2_32.dll
        DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll
        DLL Name: ADVAPI32.dll
        DLL Name: VCRUNTIME140.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
        DLL Name: api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll

Yet better, I found a pythonic way to do so

import pefile
import sys

def get_dependency(filename):
    deps = []
    pe = pefile.PE(filename)
    for imp in pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_IMPORT:
        deps.append(imp.dll.decode())
    return deps

deps = get_dependency(sys.argv[1])
for dep in deps:
	print(dep)

Which produces the same result, without needing subprocess. Going to tweak Standalone.py to use this so we won’t have any more …dependencies (pun intended).

[JorjMcKie]

@deajan maybe I am missing a point, but how about using dumbin.exe (Visual Studio) on Windows? Sample output (redirectable to file, tons of other options available)

dumpbin.exe /DEPENDENTS C:\Users\Jorj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python37.dll

Dump of file C:\Users\Jorj\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python37.dll

File Type: DLL

  Image has the following dependencies:

    VERSION.dll
    SHLWAPI.dll
    WS2_32.dll
    KERNEL32.dll
    ADVAPI32.dll
    VCRUNTIME140.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
    api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
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