unable to run zippapps with pywin32

[SDAravind]

@ClericPy - I struggle to overcome pywin32 issue when using zipapps.

When I installed pywin32 module and package it by runing below command
python -m zipapps -o demo.pyz -m "src.main:main" -d -c -u=* -r .\requirements.txt -a "src"

then running python demo.pyz outside virtual environment or on different machine will produce below error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\pythonuser\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Users\pythonuser\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File ".\demo.pyz\__main__.py", line 101, in <module>
    main()
  File ".\demo.pyz\__main__.py", line 66, in main
    import src.main
  File "F:\myapps\zipapps_cache\demo\src\main.py", line 6, in <module>
    import win32com.client as win32
  File "F:\myapps\zipapps_cache\demo\_zipapps_lazy_pip\3.8_Windows\win32com\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    import win32api, sys, os
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32api'

Do you have any work around this or any suggestions?

[ClericPy]

what's the requirements.txt?

[SDAravind]

what's the requirements.txt?

anyio==3.5.0
asgiref==3.5.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.7"
certifi==2021.10.8; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
charset-normalizer==2.0.12; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3"
click==8.0.4; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.6"
colorama==0.4.4
dnspython==2.2.1; python_version >= "3.6" and python_version < "4.0" and python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
email-validator==1.1.3; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
fastapi==0.75.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
h11==0.13.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.6"
httptools==0.2.0
idna==3.3; python_full_version >= "3.6.2" and python_version >= "3.6"
itsdangerous==2.1.2; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.7"
jinja2==3.1.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.7"
markupsafe==2.1.1; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.7"
numpy==1.22.3
orjson==3.6.7; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.7"
pandas==1.4.1; python_version >= "3.8"
pydantic==1.9.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
python-dateutil==2.8.2; python_version >= "3.8" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_full_version >= "3.3.0" and python_version >= "3.8"
python-dotenv==0.20.0
python-multipart==0.0.5; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
pytz==2022.1; python_version >= "3.8"
pywin32==303
pyyaml==5.4.1
requests==2.27.1; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
six==1.16.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and (python_version >= "3.8" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or python_full_version >= "3.3.0" and python_version >= "3.8")
sniffio==1.2.0; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.6.2"
starlette==0.17.1; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
typing-extensions==4.1.1; python_version >= "3.6" and python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
ujson==4.3.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version >= "3.6"
urllib3==1.26.9; python_full_version >= "3.6.1" and python_version < "4"
uvicorn==0.15.0; python_full_version >= "3.6.1"
watchgod==0.8.1
websockets==10.2
zipapps==2022.3.17; python_version >= "3.6"

[ClericPy]

I need to recurrent this issue, wait some minutes.

[ClericPy]

pywin32 is not a normal pypi lib, I tried pip install pywin32 -t . and failed again.

It's a good question but I can't solve it fast

mhammond/pywin32#1484

[ClericPy]

I succeed once with the solution mhammond/pywin32#1399

Copy the two dll files in pywin32_system32 folder to win32 folder...

So, that's the special case of pywin32, and zipapps could not do much things.

[SDAravind]

Copying dll files doesn't seem to work. It seems like we need to install pywin32 wherever the application is consumed. It doesn't utilize the pywin32 packed in *.pyz.

[ClericPy]

copy dll files to the zipapps cache folder

so, maybe -d mode need a venv usage, I will try something