Packaging my text-user-interface and its requirements.txt libraries into a "1-click" executable

[ishaan-ghosh]

Hi Guys! I have built a pretty simple text-user-interface with textual for a third-party command line interface library I am utilizing. My current objective is to package the TUI as a binary/executable, I want the executable to be "1-click", meaning I don't need the end-user to install any libraries (the CLI or textual), or even python itself honestly (even though that should be very uncommon).

The basic project hierarchy is like so:

TUI
├── requirements.txt
├── application
│   ├── main.py
│   ├── app
│   │   ├── frontend.py
│   │   ├── style.tcss
│   ├── back
│   │   ├── backend.py

The CLI I am building the TUI for is a part of the PyPi repository, and is including in my TUI requirements.txt, so it should be easy to add to the packaged executable.

How would I go about doing something like this? I have already attempted using PyInstaller using the following command:

pyinstaller --onefile --add-data 'application/app/style.tcss:application/app/' --name "TUI v0.1.0 (MacOS)" application/main.py

However, it doesn't seem to package the CLI with the TUI. When I attempt to run the TUI it hits my internal error check for whether the TUI can be called, and errors out. Does anybody have prior experience packaging a small textual project with additional python library requirements like this? If so, I would greatly appreciate some advice on whether a different packaging library worked better for you, or if I may be doing something wrong with PyInstaller.

Any advice is much appreciated!

[TomJGooding]

Today was my first time trying pyinstaller so I'm probably not going to be much help, but I'm not sure there's really enough detail here for others to offer any advice.

When I attempt to run the TUI it hits my internal error check for whether the TUI can be called, and errors out.

What exactly is that code and the traceback?