I'm wondering how to exclude some frameworks of PySide6 to reduce the executable size

[kaka1909]

I am developing a PySide6 application and use pyinstaller to package, I want to reduce the executable size, so I was looking for something to delete. And I found in my dist/_internal/PySide6/lib/ , there are many frameworks that i do not need actually, just like "/myproject/dist/dakar/_internal/PySide6/Qt/lib/QtPdf.framework", but I don't know how to exclude it.

I tried to use exclude in .spec, but it does not work. Need a help. Thanks

-- my spec file.

# -*- mode: python ; coding: utf-8 -*-


a = Analysis(
    ['dakar.py'],
    pathex=[],
    binaries=[],
    datas=[
        ('config', 'config'),
    ],
    hiddenimports=['pkg_resources.extern'],
    hookspath=[],
    hooksconfig={},
    runtime_hooks=[],
    excludes=['ipython', 'jedi'],
    noarchive=False,
    optimize=0,
)

pyz = PYZ(a.pure)

exe = EXE(
    pyz,
    a.scripts,
    [],
    exclude_binaries=True,
    name='dakar',
    debug=False,
    bootloader_ignore_signals=False,
    strip=False,
    upx=True,
    console=False,
    disable_windowed_traceback=False,
    argv_emulation=False,
    target_arch=None,
    codesign_identity=None,
    entitlements_file=None,
)
coll = COLLECT(
    exe,
    a.binaries,
    a.datas,
    strip=False,
    upx=True,
    upx_exclude=[],
    name='dakar',
)
app = BUNDLE(
    coll,
    name='my.app',
    icon='my.icns',
    version='1.0.0',
    bundle_identifier=None,
)

[rokm]

You would have to filter the entries of a.datas and a.binaries before they are passed on to EXE and COLLECT.

But if you are building an .app bundle, you might as well remove them manually in post-processing, and re-sign the bundle (that would probably be easier to experiment with, as well).