Get PyInstaller to import Basemap

Question

I\'m working on building a standalone executable for a simple tool I built that uses Basemap. (Using Python 2.7, using the dev version of PyInstaller - 2.1). The .exe (single

Answer 1

Took me a few days, but I think I sorted it from piecing together a few partial solutions:

From http://www.jontrinder.com/blog/?paged=2 :

In pyproj.py, found in C:...\Lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap Just past the huge lists is a line that looks something like

pyproj_datadir = os.sep.join([os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data'])

Replace that with

if 'PROJ_DIR' in os.environ:
    pyproj_datadir = os.environ['PROJ_DIR']
else:
    pyproj_datadir = os.sep.join([os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data'])

The piece that was missing from the linked solution was then adding the data path when actually running PyInstaller with --paths

C:\Python27\python.exe "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\pyinstaller-develop\PyInstaller\main.py" --onefile --paths="C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\*" "C:\Documents and Settings\KAHERE\My Documents\Python code\Flood\src\root\nested\FloodRisk.py"
pause

Just thought I'd post in case anyone else was banging their head on this one.