PyQt/PySide - icon display

Question

I have a PySide app which has an icon for the MainWindow (a QMainWindow instance). When I run the file normally, the icon is visible and everything

Answer 1

You must include "qico4.dll" manually in your release folder. Insert this in your setup.py:

import sys
from os.path import join, dirname
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

_ICO_DLL = join(dirname(sys.executable), 
                     'Lib', 'site-packages',
                     'PySide', 'plugins',
                     'imageformats', 'qico4.dll')

build_exe = {
        'include_files': [(
                _ICO_DLL,
                join('imageformats', 'qico4.dll'))]}

setup(name = "xxxxx",
      version = "1.0.0",
      ...
      options = { ...
                 'build_exe': build_exe
                  ...},
      ...)