Unable to install and use pyinstaller inside of github actions - python-3.x

Question

I am trying to install pyinstaller inside of my github actions workflow.
Using pip install pyinstaller was fine on ubuntu-latest but on windows-latest it was not however. It returns the following log.
Requirement already satisfied: future in c:\hostedtoolcache\windows\python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages (from pefile>=2017.8.1->pyinstaller) (0.18.2)
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for pefile, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: pywin32-ctypes, altgraph, pyinstaller-hooks-contrib, pefile, pyinstaller
Running setup.py install for pefile: started
ERROR: Operation cancelled by user
Running setup.py install for pefile: finished with status 'canceled'
Error: The operation was canceled.
build:
name: Build Executables
needs: create_release
runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
strategy:
matrix:
config:
- os: ubuntu-latest
- os: macos-latest
- os: windows-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v3
- name: Setup Python
uses: actions/setup-python#v3
with:
python-version: '3.9.12'
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install pyinstaller
- name: Build with pyinstaller for ${{ matrix.config.os }}
run: pyinstaller game.spec
Direct link to github action file: https://github.com/daanbreur/SwishandFrick/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml
Trying to install the missing dependencies manually doesnt resolve the issue however
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install pywin32 pefile pyinstaller
Direct link to github action file: https://github.com/daanbreur/SwishandFrick/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml
ubuntu-latest fails to locate the pywin32 package
Installing collected packages: PyTMX, pygame, future, pyscroll
Successfully installed PyTMX-3.31 future-0.18.2 pygame-2.1.2 pyscroll-2.29
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32 (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for pywin32
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
And windows-latest crashes entirely
Run python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install pywin32 pefile pyinstaller
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\__main__.py", line 29, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.main import main as _main
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\main.py", line 9, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.autocompletion import autocomplete
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\autocompletion.py", line 10, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.main_parser import create_main_parser
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\main_parser.py", line 8, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli import cmdoptions
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\cmdoptions.py", line 23, in <module>
from pip._internal.cli.parser import ConfigOptionParser
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\parser.py", line 12, in <module>
from pip._internal.configuration import Configuration, ConfigurationError
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\configuration.py", line 20, in <module>
from pip._internal.exceptions import (
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\exceptions.py", line 13, in <module>
from pip._vendor.requests.models import Request, Response
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
from .exceptions import RequestsDependencyWarning
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\exceptions.py", line 11, in <module>
from .compat import JSONDecodeError as CompatJSONDecodeError
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\requests\compat.py", line 11, in <module>
from pip._vendor import chardet
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\chardet\__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
from .universaldetector import UniversalDetector
File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.9.12\x64\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\chardet\universaldetector.py", line 46, in <module>
from .latin1prober import Latin1Prober
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 846, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 941, in get_code
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1040, in get_data
KeyboardInterrupt
What am I missing for windows and how can I let ubuntu skip the step for windows dependencies.

Answer 1

Big oops on my part.
Windows didn't fail to install the dependencies, Ubuntu failed to zip the archive and that lead to it erroring.
By default github-actions is configured to automatically cancel all other jobs in the matrix. Setting fail-fast inside the strategy to false stops it from canceling other jobs. See docs: jobs.<job_id>.strategy.fail-fast
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index a00be16..34b9e82 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
## -38,6 +38,7 ## jobs:
needs: create_release
runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.os }}
strategy:
+ fail-fast: false
matrix:
config:
- os: ubuntu-latest
## -49,11 +50,11 ## jobs:
uses: actions/setup-python#v3
with:
python-version: '3.9.12'
- - name: Install dependencies
+ - name: Install dependencies for ${{ matrix.config.os }}
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
pip install -r requirements.txt
- pip install pywin32 pefile pyinstaller
+ pip install pyinstaller
- name: Build with pyinstaller for ${{ matrix.config.os }}
run: pyinstaller game.spec
- name: Archive Release