How do I add pyinstaller to path

[DannyBrock123]

Hi, I just got pyinstaller and its having some problems, it didn't add itself to the system path file. Can you please help me how to add it to path. Cmd is not finding the application and I need helping adding it to path

[bwoodsend]

The same way you add any application to PATH (which is an environment variable - not a file). Find pyinstaller.exe (pip should have given you a warning telling you where it is on install), then copy the directory it's in. Then find the edit system environment variables setting on your PC, find PATH and paste the directory there. I'm rather reluctant to tell you this - you're going to need be familiar with much worse than PATH to get a functional application out of PyInstaller.

[DannyBrock123]

Where is pyinstaller.exe found?

[rokm]

In your python environment's scripts directory. If you have system wide installation, this might be somewhere in user's AppData directory, and hard to track down. But when you installed PyInstaller, pip likely gave you a warning about it, and that warning contained the path to scripts directory.

So if you have no idea how to proceed, it might be easier to just invoke PyInstaller as a module (python -m PyInstaller instead of pyinstaller). Or, create a virtual environment and use that instead (since activating a venv will put its scripts directory into PATH).

[DannyBrock123]

I was able to track down the pyinstaller.exe but when I copied it to path and tried it, It did not work. I'm I doing something wrong? Can you please add me on discord Markos#5515 so we can have direct chat and message. I need a lot of please. Thanks

[bwoodsend]

We're not a support service. Like I said, if this is out of your depth then you shouldn't be using PyInstaller.

[rhit-pappasad]

We're not a support service. Like I said, if this is out of your depth then you shouldn't be using PyInstaller.

Yes you literally are a support service.