[How-to] Cannot get program to work

[brechtBDCK]

I am very new to docker and such, but i'm trying to create a windows EXE file from inside my WSL2 system.
My folder looks the following:

where data is a folder containing excel files (which main.py needs to create some nice figures)
Dockerfile is

FROM batonogov/pyinstaller-windows:latest

# Copy your project files
COPY . /src

# Set working directory
WORKDIR /src

# Install dependencies if needed
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

# Build the executable
CMD ["pyinstaller", "--onefile", "--add-data ","data:/data", "--hidden-import", "PIL._tkinter_finder", "main.py"]

which i then run using: docker run --volume "$(pwd):/src/" batonogov/pyinstaller-windows:latest

the error(s)
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.
0044:err:vulkan:vulkan_init_once Failed to load libvulkan.so.1
0044:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
0044:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"The explorer process failed to start."
0044:err:systray:initialize_systray Could not create tray window
00c8:err:winebth:bluez_dbus_init Failed to get system dbus connection: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound": "Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory"
00c8:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\winebth": c00000e5

It then continues pip for the packages

pyinstaller: error: the following arguments are required: scriptname

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[batonogov]

Hi @brechtBDCK,

Thank you for reaching out and providing detailed information about your setup and issue! It's great to see you experimenting with Docker for building Windows executables.

From the information you've shared, it seems like you're trying to create an EXE file inside a Docker container based on batonogov/pyinstaller-windows. However, I'm not entirely sure how to reproduce the exact issue you're encountering. Could you clarify a few things to help me understand better?

I wrote a simple tkinter application and built it without any problems.

docker run --platform linux/amd64 \
  --volume "$(pwd):/src/" \
  batonogov/pyinstaller-windows:latest \
  "pyinstaller --onefile main.py"

You can provide additional details to pinpoint the root cause? Happy to assist further!

[brechtBDCK]

I see from your example code that you are specifying --platform linux/amd64, even though you are running the exe from windows?
The thing is, i want to (from inside my wsl linux) create a windows .exe file. So far i've tried with the --platform windows64 flag, but maybe this is wrong because the exe i get never works when running it from my windows folder system.

[batonogov]

I am compiling exe on Mac with Arm processor, so I use --platform linux/amd64 key.

Inside the container we have Linux with Wine and therefore there can be no --platform windows.

In general, if you are compiling exe on windows, you don't need my container. :) You can simply install pyinstaller on your windows and use the command pyinstaller --onefile main.py.

This container is needed if you don't have windows and you need to make a program for windows.