Windows: Can encounter permission denied from PATH elements when scanning dependencies

• Nuitka version, full Python version, flavor, OS, etc. as output by this command (it does more than you think, and we are adding more all the time):

  python -m nuitka --version 0.7 Commercial: None Python: 3.9.6 (tags/v3.9.6:db3ff76, Jun 28 2021, 15:26:21) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] Flavor: Unknown Executable: C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\Scripts\python.exe OS: Windows Arch: x86_64 WindowsRelease: 10

• How did you install Nuitka and Python

pip install nuitka within virtualenv

• The specific PyPI names and versions

Nuitka==0.7

• Many times when you get an error from Nuitka, your setup may be special

  print("hello world") fails, too, if ‘–onefile’ is provided. If not, it seems to work, so probably my setup is wrong, but as far as I know I did everything correctly and I even left to Nuitka to install the C toolchain, too.

• Also supply a Short, Self Contained, Correct, Example

  That demonstrates the issue i.e a small piece of code which reproduces the issue and can be run with out any other (or as few as possible) external dependencies. Issues without this may get rejected without much consideration.

• Provide in your issue the Nuitka options used

I just used --onefile, and that seems to be the cause of the error. --follow-imports works, too, but --onefile generates the error below.

• The resulting error

Detecting used DLLs:   0%|                                                                                                           | 0/18Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 137, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 123, in main
    MainControl.main()
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 963, in main
    copyDllsUsed(
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\Standalone.py", line 1371, in copyDllsUsed
    used_dlls = _detectUsedDLLs(
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\Standalone.py", line 1143, in _detectUsedDLLs
    worker_pool.submit(
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\utils\ThreadedExecutor.py", line 45, in submit
    self.results.append(function(*args))
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\Standalone.py", line 1103, in addDLLInfo
    used_dlls = _detectBinaryDLLs(
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\Standalone.py", line 1070, in _detectBinaryDLLs
    return detectBinaryPathDLLsWindowsDependencyWalker(
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\Standalone.py", line 1033, in detectBinaryPathDLLsWindowsDependencyWalker
    result = detectDLLsWithDependencyWalker(binary_filename, scan_dirs)
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\DependsExe.py", line 152, in detectDLLsWithDependencyWalker
    "scan_dirs": "\n".join(
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\DependsExe.py", line 153, in <genexpr>
    "UserDir %s" % getExternalUsePath(dirname) for dirname in scan_dirs
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\utils\FileOperations.py", line 759, in getExternalUsePath
    filename = getWindowsShortPathName(filename)
  File "C:\Users\rauln\Desktop\vsm\venv\lib\site-packages\nuitka\utils\FileOperations.py", line 724, in getWindowsShortPathName
    raise WindowsError(
OSError: [Errno 5] Acceso denegado.

The error is caused when running getWindowsShortPathName on path C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.11.3471.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe, don’t know why.

[kayhayen]

thanks for the kind words, but obviously Nuitka has to cope with these things, and thanks for reporting it. It’s part of the 0.7.1 hotfix I just made.

[DervishD]

I don’t have any social network (not my thing 🤷🏼‍♂️ but I’ll make sure to recommend it to other developers I know and if I make commercial use of it I’ll make sure the company I do the work for hires commercial support from you.

In this case I was testing different solutions to produce executable files just in case I need such a tool in the future, so in fact I won’t be using any tool after testing for quite a long period. Right now I’m using PyInstaller for one of my project but it is a requisite, not my decision, so…