pyinstaller failure when creating pygamezero game

Question

We are creatign our first python game with pygamezero and mu. we have modified the code to import and run pgz, copied the pgz directory to the mu directory. installed pyinstaller via pip and added the relevant path. running

pyinstaller spacegame.py –-distpath . –-add-data "pgzero;pgzero" –-add-data "images;images" –-add-data "fonts;fonts" –-add-data "sounds;sounds" –-add-data "music;music" –noconfirm –windowed –-clean

we get an error

129 INFO: PyInstaller: 4.2 129 INFO: Python: 3.9.1 131 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 133 INFO: wrote C:\Users\ellap\mu_code\oconfirm.spec 139 INFO: UPX is not available. 140 INFO: Removing temporary files and cleaning cache in C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Roaming\pyinstaller 143 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths ['C:\Users\ellap\mu_code', 'C:\Users\ellap\mu_code'] pygame 2.0.1 (SDL 2.0.14, Python 3.9.1) Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html 8246 INFO: checking Analysis 8247 INFO: Building Analysis because Analysis-00.toc is non existent 8248 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph... 8255 INFO: Caching module graph hooks... 8273 WARNING: Several hooks defined for module 'win32ctypes.core'. Please take care they do not conflict. 8284 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ... 12026 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils from 'C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks\pre_find_module_path\hook-distutils.py'. 12027 INFO: distutils: retargeting to non-venv dir 'C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.496.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib' 13961 INFO: Caching module dependency graph... 14151 INFO: running Analysis Analysis-00.toc Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\pywintypes.py", line 35, in pywin32error yield File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\win32api.py", line 43, in LoadLibraryEx return _dll._LoadLibraryEx(fileName, 0, flags) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\win32ctypes\core\ctypes_util.py", line 42, in check_null raise make_error(function, function_name) OSError: [WinError 1920] The file cannot be accessed by the system.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.496.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py",

line 197, in run_module_as_main return run_code(code, main_globals, None, File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.496.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe_main.py", line 7, in File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller_main.py", line 114, in run run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args)) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller_main.py", line 65, in run_build PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 725, in main build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build')) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 672, in build exec(code, spec_namespace) File "C:\Users\ellap\mu_code\oconfirm.spec", line 6, in a = Analysis(['spacegame.py'], File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 242, in init self.postinit() File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\datastruct.py", line 160, in postinit self.assemble() File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 391, in assemble self.binaries.extend(bindepend.Dependencies([('', python, '')], File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 224, in Dependencies for ftocnm, fn in getAssemblyFiles(pth, manifest, redirects): File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 403, in getAssemblyFiles for assembly in getAssemblies(pth): File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 354, in getAssemblies res = GetManifestResources(pth) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\winmanifest.py", line 1016, in GetManifestResources return winresource.GetResources(filename, [RT_MANIFEST], names, languages) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\winresource.py", line 170, in GetResources hsrc = win32api.LoadLibraryEx(filename, 0, LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\win32api.py", line 43, in LoadLibraryEx return _dll._LoadLibraryEx(fileName, 0, flags) File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_3.9.496.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\contextlib.py", line 135, in exit self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback) File "C:\Users\ellap\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python39\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\pywintypes.py", line 37, in pywin32error raise error(exception.winerror, exception.function, exception.strerror) win32ctypes.pywin32.pywintypes.error: (1920, 'LoadLibraryExW', 'The file cannot be accessed by the system.')

any help gratefully appreciated