GitHub Action | Python3.8 Pyinstaller

Please note: This repository is currently in beta phase.

Usage

Pre-requisites

Create a workflow .yml file in your .github/workflows directory. An example workflow is available below. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for Creating a workflow file.

Please note: Make sure you have .spec file for more info read here, and if you have .gitignore please exclude *.spec. All docker images have python3.x with preinstalled tk-dev make sure to excludes=["tkinter"] in .spec file if you are not using tk in project.

Inputs

• path: Directory containing source code & .spec file (optional requirements.txt). Required: true
• pypi_url: Specify a custom URL for PYPI. Required: false
• pypi_index_url: Specify a custom URL for PYPI Index. Required: false
• spec: Specify a file path for .spec file in case you have multi .spec files. Required: true
• requirements: Specify a file path for requirements.txt file. Required: true, Default: requirements.txt
• rename: Rename the binary file, this will only work when you have --onefile binary. Required: false

Outputs

For more information on these outputs, see the Documentation for an example of what these outputs look like.

• location: Binary file location or Directory location.
• filename: Binary file name or NULL.
• content_type: File content type or NULL.

Please note: Github action's outputs are depend on the pyinstaller's output if it's single file or not, location will return the binary file location when pyinstaller make single file --onefile or it will return the directory location same with filename and content_type they will return NULL because there is not a single file.

Supported Versions

Python3.8.9 pyinstaller with arch: amd64 is action-python/pyinstaller-py3.8@amd64. Python3.7.9 pyinstaller with arch: amd64 is action-python/pyinstaller-py3.7@amd64 .

Python versions available

• python3.8
• python3.7

Architecture available with branch

• amd64
• i386
• win32
• win64

Example workflow - create a release

name: Make release with Build binaries

on:
  push:
    # Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
    tags:
      - 'v*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10
 
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master

    - name: PyInstaller Linux amd64
      id: amd64
      uses: action-python/pyinstaller-py3.8@amd64
      with:
        path: .

    - name: Create Release
      id: create_release
      uses: actions/create-release@v1
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
        tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
        release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }}
        draft: false
        prerelease: false

    - name: Upload Linux File amd64
      uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
      env:
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
          upload_url: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }} 
          asset_path: ${{ steps.amd64.outputs.location }}
          asset_name: ${{ steps.amd64.outputs.filename }}
          asset_content_type: ${{ steps.amd64.outputs.content_type }}

This uses the GITHUB_TOKEN provided by the virtual environment, so no new token is needed.

Sources

This is customized and advanced version of # Chris R docker files and # Jack McKew github action with multi architecture support with different versions of python3.

Contributing

We would love you to contribute to @action-python/pyinstaller-py3.8 and @action-python/pyinstaller-py3.7, make sure to be clear and detailed description in pull requests, you are welcome!