Error: Could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “windows” - PyQt + Pyinstaller

Question

I am trying to bundle a PyQt project using Pyinstaller. I tried creating package using command pyinstaller --onedir Hello.py.

This creates dist folder and h

Answer 1

If you using python 3.4 and pip refuses to install pyqt5

Download and install

Pyqt5 manually to %your python 3.4 dir%

Create directory

Go to %your python 3.4 dir%\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5 create directory Qt and then move plugins folder there.

Add plugins

Then you can add ('C:/Python34-32/Lib/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt/plugins', 'PyQt5/Qt/plugins') to data in your spec file.

be sure to download PyQt 5.4.1 or other version that supports python 3.4

At least that solved my problem. I hope this will help somebody