'google-cloud-firestore' distribution doesn't get added to PyInstaller build

Question

When I am trying to build an executable for my python script it gives me:

pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The \'google-cloud-firestore\' distribution wa         


        

Answer 1

Recently i found a solution for this,hope this will fix your problem too.

Create two hook files:

1. hook-google.cloud.firestore.py
2. hook-grpc.py

In hook-google.cloud.firestore.py write below code and save it somewhere:

from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import copy_metadata
datas = copy_metadata('google-cloud-firestore')

In hook-grpc.py write below code and save it at same place:

from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import collect_data_files
datas = collect_data_files ( 'grpc' )

Now copy paste both the files to :

C:\Users\Paul\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks

If you still face the problem, Please use setuptools version 45.0.0 and then run pyinstaller and create your exe file by:

pyinstaller --clean --onefile yourfilename.py