Stockfish .EXE Does Not Run in Background Upon PyInstaller Packaging

[hebozhe]

I had a look at models.py, and it doesn't seem like it's built to open and run stockfish_<version>.exe in the background, though it does from the PyCharm IDE.

The --noconsole command doesn't seem to apply to dependent executables.

Is there a snippet that one could add to make sure that the executable never displays a console?

[hebozhe]

Solution:

Change...

self.stockfish = subprocess.Popen(
            path, universal_newlines=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE
        )

to...

self.stockfish = subprocess.Popen(
            path, universal_newlines=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True 
        )