pack a software in Python using py2exe with 'libiomp5md.dll' not found

Question

I have Python 2.7 on Window 7 OS. I wish to pack my project.py in an Executable using py2exe. Following the instruction i wrote a setup.py file

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=["project.py"])  

and I got this message

i tried to exclude 'libiomp5md.dll'

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=["SegmentationAccuracy.py"])

dll_excludes = ['libiomp5md.dll']

but always i got the same error message "error: libiomo5md.dll: No such file or directory"

my executable contains:

import math
import os
import numpy as np
import sys
import ogr
from progressbar import ProgressBar
from shapely.geometry import Polygon
nan = np.nan

Solution 1

I had the same problem, but calling import numpy within setup.py resolved the issue

Solution 2

libiomp5md.dll is from the Intel C compiler, and is used for OpenMP multiprocessing operations. I expect that your code involves numpy or code compiled with the Intel compiler, and so your py2exe build depends on it.

You can't simply create a build without it, so I would suggest finding it on your system and copying it to the directory where you run python setup.py py2exe . Hint, I have a copy in C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\numpy\core

[If you really want to exclude it you will have to compile numpy manually with Visual Studio or Msys.]

Once you have libiomp5md.dll in the directory that you're executing python setup.py py2exe then you only need to remove the exclude_dll line (as you don't want to be excluding it...)

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=["SegmentationAccuracy.py"])

Comments

[Gianni Spear]

Hey @ChrisB. I just moved the libiomp5md.dll file in the folder of setup.py and it works

[Pierre]

adding "import numpy" worked for me too. You don't really want to be moving DLLs around, as other components may depend on them being in a certain place.

[sliders_alpha]

I added 'import numpy' because it told me that numpy was not defined, now I'm getting "'module' object has no attribute 'file'"