see https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/7721#issuecomment-1072669548
-----
pyinstaller 4.2 failed (during its runtime) to create exes (worked with cpython 3.9.10, but not with cpython 3.9.11):
```
80572 INFO: Processing module hooks...
80573 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-certifi.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\_pyinstaller_hooks_contrib\\hooks\\stdhooks'...
80618 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-cryptography.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\_pyinstaller_hooks_contrib\\hooks\\stdhooks'...
82879 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-dns.rdata.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\_pyinstaller_hooks_contrib\\hooks\\stdhooks'...
84147 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-mnemonic.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\_pyinstaller_hooks_contrib\\hooks\\stdhooks'...
84207 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-pycparser.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\_pyinstaller_hooks_contrib\\hooks\\stdhooks'...
84212 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-usb1.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\usb1\\__pyinstaller'...
84215 INFO: --- libusb1 pyinstaller hook ---
84226 INFO: Added libusb binaries: [('C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\usb1\\libusb-1.0.dll', 'usb1')]
84228 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-difflib.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks'...
84237 INFO: Excluding import of doctest from module difflib
84237 INFO: Loading module hook 'hook-distutils.py' from 'C:\\python3\\lib\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks'...
Unable to find "C:\python3\Include\pyconfig.h" when adding binary and data files.This would mean your Python installation doesn't
come with proper library files. This usually happens by missing development
package, or unsuitable build parameters of Python installation.
* On Debian/Ubuntu, you would need to install Python development packages
* apt-get install python3-dev
* apt-get install python-dev
* If you're building Python by yourself, please rebuild your Python with
`--enable-shared` (or, `--enable-framework` on Darwin)
🗯 ERROR: build-electrum-git failed
```
Looks like this might be fixed in pyinstaller 4.3 (we are using 4.2):
https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/5218
-----
While trying to update pyinstaller to have that fix, several issues found with versions 4.3-4.10,
now reported upstream and already fixed:
https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/6338https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/6339https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/6686
So the pyinstaller commit pinned here is from the stable "v4" branch, some commits after the 4.10 tag,
which has fixes for the above issues.
