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Freezing your code Windows section needs a note about long pathnames #1005

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j-lawrence-b1 opened this issue Jul 22, 2019 · 2 comments
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Freezing your code Windows section needs a note about long pathnames #1005

j-lawrence-b1 opened this issue Jul 22, 2019 · 2 comments

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@j-lawrence-b1 j-lawrence-b1 commented Jul 22, 2019

cx_freeze, py2exe, and pyinstaller all have the same issue: That is, .exes created by these tools cannot access Windows path names longer than the 260 char MAX_PATH limit.
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@j-lawrence-b1 j-lawrence-b1 commented Jul 23, 2019

I should add that published workarounds, like "Enable Win32 long paths" in gpedit.msc have no effect.
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@htgoebel htgoebel commented Aug 13, 2019

@j-lawrence-b1 PyInstaller maintiner her. If you know ow to solve this, I'd appreciate a pull-request.
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