Using Bleak in EXE App on Windows 11

[chadcwilliams]

As is now apparent from this and related issues, Bleak doesn't work on Windows 11 when the pywin32 and pkg_resources modules are installed. This has been identified as a bug in the Windows 11 OS. Unfortunately, I would like to convert my project into a Windows executable via modules such as pyinstaller or py2exe but these require those packages. Does anyone know of a workaround to this issue that would make this possible?

I am not familiar with the process of converting python code into executable (or the engine of how bluetooth in Win11 works), so maybe these will always be required packages. If not, I am hoping someone might know of a py to exe converter package that approaches it without these packages, or potentially a method of circumventing the Windows 11 bug?

Thanks for any comment, even if it's to say that there's nothing I can do.

EDIT: For my use-case, it turns out that removing pywin32 worked. I have setuptools (which recruits pkg_resources) installed via pyinstaller but that seemed not to be a problem.

[dlech]

I totally forgot about the pywin32 issue #1132!. Thanks for bringing it up.

I just made #1556 which should now detect that something is wrong and raise and exception before hanging forever. And it includes another possible workaround besides removing pywin32 in case that isn't an option for some applications.

[chadcwilliams]

Amazing work, well done! Keep it up and thanks for all of your effort!