Issues using Pyinstaller GitHub action

[NoelleTGS]

Hello, for months now I have been unable to use a particular Pyinstaller GitHub action with it crashing every time. It runs Pyinstaller through Wine to create a Windows executable for the program.

The error can be viewed here: https://github.com/NoelleTGS/osu-scorepost-generator/actions/runs/11669487563/job/33215076951
If it can't be viewed, I put it in a pastebin as well: https://pastebin.com/3s944s6V

I didn't report this for quite a while because I'm not sure whether the issue is with Pyinstaller, the action code, my own code, Wine, the package trying to be imported, etc... but was hoping I could at least be directed to the right location through here. Feel free to ask if any other information is needed.

[rokm]

Looks like that python sub-process in which we are importing packages before binary dependency analysis crashes because it ends up calling CRT function that is not implemented by Wine:

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll.crealf called in 64-bit code (0x0000007b01390d).

So at its core, this is a Wine issue.

As per

PyInstaller.isolated._parent.SubprocessDiedError: Child process died calling import_library() with args=('circleguard',) and kwargs={}. Its exit code was 2147483904.

this happens when we try to import circleguard.

You can try to patch your copy of PyInstaller and add circleguard to the suppressed_imports list at the end of this block:

pyinstaller/PyInstaller/building/build_main.py

Lines 264 to 279 in a2a6d1e

	suppressed_imports = [package for package in _QT_BINDINGS if package not in qt_packages]
	# If we suppressed PySide2 or PySide6, we must also suppress their corresponding shiboken package
	if "PySide2" in suppressed_imports:
	suppressed_imports += ["shiboken2"]
	if "PySide6" in suppressed_imports:
	suppressed_imports += ["shiboken6"]
	# Suppress import of `pyqtgraph.canvas`, which is known to crash python interpreter. See #7452 and #8322, as
	# well as https://github.com/pyqtgraph/pyqtgraph/issues/2838.
	suppressed_imports += ['pyqtgraph.canvas']
	# PySimpleGUI 5.x displays a "first-run" dialog when imported for the first time, which blocks the loop below.
	# This is a problem for building on CI, where the dialog cannot be closed, and where PySimpleGUI runs "for the
	# first time" every time. See #8396.
	suppressed_imports += ['PySimpleGUI']

That should skip importing circleguard at that stage of analysis, and might get you past this (particular instance of) issue.