Not working with Pyinstaller

[AlexPaiva]

After adding the correct hooks and module imports on the latest versions of pyinstaller and xdist I run with pytest.main(["-n","2",relative_to_assets('test.py')]) and it just starts a new .exe and once closed gives this error:

platform win32 -- Python 3.10.5, pytest-7.4.3, pluggy-1.3.0
rootdir: C:\Users\AA
plugins: xdist-3.5.0
created: 2/2 workers

But the workers don't actually run, it just opens an extra .exe and then if I close the extra one I get:

INTERNALERROR> Traceback (most recent call last):
INTERNALERROR>   File "_pytest\main.py", line 269, in wrap_session
INTERNALERROR>   File "pluggy\_hooks.py", line 493, in __call__
INTERNALERROR>   File "pluggy\_manager.py", line 115, in _hookexec
INTERNALERROR>   File "pluggy\_callers.py", line 152, in _multicall
INTERNALERROR>   File "pluggy\_result.py", line 114, in get_result
INTERNALERROR>   File "pluggy\_callers.py", line 77, in _multicall
INTERNALERROR>   File "xdist\dsession.py", line 83, in pytest_sessionstart
INTERNALERROR>   File "xdist\workermanage.py", line 68, in setup_nodes
INTERNALERROR>   File "xdist\workermanage.py", line 68, in <listcomp>
INTERNALERROR>   File "xdist\workermanage.py", line 71, in setup_node
INTERNALERROR>   File "execnet\multi.py", line 133, in makegateway
INTERNALERROR>   File "execnet\gateway_bootstrap.py", line 100, in bootstrap
INTERNALERROR>   File "execnet\gateway_bootstrap.py", line 34, in bootstrap_import
INTERNALERROR>   File "execnet\gateway_base.py", line 476, in read
INTERNALERROR> EOFError: expected 1 bytes, got 0

Seems pyinstaller is not supported? Or?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Nope, it's not supported and it's currently unclear how to support it in execnet

[AlexPaiva]

Nope, it's not supported and it's currently unclear how to support it in execnet

Seems more like a path issue than anything else no? Or? Any branch currently checking on that? Any starting points you can give me to check this out?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

Execnet subprocesses startup is currently completely unaware of pyinstaller, starting the workers is impossible as such

I'm unable to add support due to bandwidth and I'm not aware of anyone else working on it

[AlexPaiva]

Execnet subprocesses startup is currently completely unaware of pyinstaller, starting the workers is impossible as such

I'm unable to add support due to bandwidth and I'm not aware of anyone else working on it

After pytest-dev/execnet#237 and as explained there with the changes explained there and the sent PR changes: pytest-dev/execnet#238 was able to fix and make it work.