OpenCV with standalone python executable (py2exe/pyinstaller)

Question

I have a python program that uses OpenCV to get frames from a video file for processing. I then create a standalone executable using py2exe (also tried pyinstaller and got same

Answer 1

Try using pyinstaller, download it using pip :

pip install pyinstaller

if you don't know how to install pip , try downloading python 2.7.9 or above, which has inbuilt pip, but don forget to add python path to environment varibles, this procedure is mentioned in this post:

How to run Pip commands from CMD

After installing pyinstaller, select the main file of your project and run this command

pyinstaller yourprogram.py

it will create folder with application file naming your file name, and finally make sure that numpy and opencv are in lib->site-packages folder of your python27 in your C Folder while running that command

Hope it Helps!