PyInstaller.depend.bindepend' has no attribute 'selectImports

[Patricklevyy]

Hello,
I'm trying to convert my .py file to .exe with py installer. I have a simple code that uses kivy. But I have an error that I can't fix. When I launch pyinstaller I get after a few moments:
AttributeError: module 'PyInstaller.depend.bindepend' has no attribute 'selectImports'
I asked the issue on pyinstaller discussion but the autor said :

PyInstaller.depend.bindepend.selectImports was refactored into low-level PyInstaller.depend.bindepend.get_imports and high-level PyInstaller.depend.bindepend.binary_dependency_analysis in v.6.0 (pyinstaller/pyinstaller#7784).
So if kivy hook is using selectImports, it should be fixed accordingly. As the hook in question is maintained as part of kivy, you should report the issue to them. (As a side note, I am not sure why kivy hook would need to perform binary dependency analysis itself - it should just return the top-level binaries and let PyInstaller handle the dependencies).

[ElliotGarbus]

What version of pyinstaller are you running?

[Heribert17]

Hello,
I get the same error. I'm using
Python3.12
pyinstaller version 6.4.0
I tested under Linux Zorin and Windows 10
There is no downgrade to pyinstaller 5.9 possible because the 5.9 version doesn’t support Python 3.12

[Patricklevyy]

Hello, have you tried downgrading to pyinstaller 5.12.0?
That's what I did to make it work and I was on windows 10 too with python 3.11.7.

[Heribert17]

Hello Patricklevyy,
pyinstaller 5.12. works with Python 3.11 but I'm using Python 3.12.2 and pyinstaller 5.12.0 doesn't work with Python 3.12. I need the pyinstaller 6.x version.
What's strange is that pyinstaller 6.4 and Python 3.12 and Kivy 2.3 work on Windows 10
but not on Linux. It seems as if the pyinstaller hooks in Kivy where only changed for Windows.

[qlrd]

@Patricklevyy , I had same issue. Found a answer (not remember where 🤕 ) that simple patch it.

I used scripts to automatically patch and use pyinstaller with kivy:

• bash script
• powershell script

To me, it resolves.

[ATchibo]

I also have a python app using Kivy and ran into the same issue. However, when I used python 3.12.3 with pyinstaller 5.13.0 it worked for me.