Pygame not loading png after making .exe with Pyinstaller

Question

I\'ve been trying to make an .exe from my .py game and it\'s been really frustrating.

I\'m using Python 3.5.2, Pygame 1.9.2 and Pyinstaller 3.2.

The game is

Answer 1

When you compile with PyInstaller, all the files are moved to a different directory when you run your exe. So, to get to this location, add this to the beginning of your code, before you generate paths

import sys

if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False): # PyInstaller adds this attribute
    # Running in a bundle
    CurrentPath = sys._MEIPASS
else:
    # Running in normal Python environment
    CurrentPath = os.path.dirname(__file__)

All your folder paths can then be generated from your location

spriteFolderPath = path.join(CurrentPath, 'sprites') # Do the same for all your other files

Then, when you've got the location you're executing in, you can get all your files from there :

title_screen = pygame.image.load(path.join(spriteFolderPath, 'title_screen.png')) # Use spriteFolderPath instead of img_dir

I also see that you've got other fonts/stuff, you can do the same to load them

fontRobotoLight = pygame.font.Font(path.join(CurrentPath, 'Roboto-Light.ttf'))

For your icon, just paste a temporary icon.ico in your main folder and type pyinstaller -i "icon.ico" "spec_file.spec"

Finally, as I've had the same problem before, I recommend you compile your exe simply by running pyinstaller "spec_file.spec"