flet pack can not import name decode from pyinstaller

[m0555]

flet pack myapp.py gives me following error (Windows 10):
Please install PyInstaller module to use flet pack command: cannot import name 'decode' from 'PyInstaller.utils.win32.versioninfo' (C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\versioninfo.py)

Same problem if I try to pack a demo app from the flet website

But no problem deploying a webapp like flet publish myapp.py, so I assume that the pyinstaller path is found and works.

Thanks for any help!

[thetrotfreak]

@m0555 , you should read the issue #1064 .

• It's been fixed in the commit 85043d2, though not a part of the flet release 0.4.1

• Use the pre-release version instead.
  pip install flet --upgrade --pre

• Also, you'd need to manually install PyInstaller through pip as it's a dep.
  pip install pyinstaller

Note:

• If you want to stick with flet v0.4.1, then use PyInstaller v5.7.0

[m0555]

it works, thanks a lot!