How to build pex file with requirements.txt ? about pex HOT 3 CLOSED

One thing to note @eci-aashish is that an issue filed without a concrete example is always a bad footing to start from. If you can provide full examples that allow re-producing the issue, that is best.

I am building my project using pex but getting memory error due to the large size of requirements.txt file.

It's not a memory error. Its an error because the zip requires Zip64 extensions and the Python zipimporter does not support 64 bit zips (that's what the error message tries to convey).

Tried --layout=packed and --layout=loose but still unable to run the pex build file.

There are many distributions that do not work properly with complicated sys.path setups; so you should try --venv which will cause the PEX to turn into a venv at runtime with a ~single sys.path site-packages entry that those distributions expect.

There are other distributions that do not tolerate the tricks Pex uses when laying out a venv to save space on your machine (it uses symlinks by default); so you want to use --venv-site-packages-copies.

All together, that means --layout packed --venv --venv-site-packages-copies.

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@eci-aashish I've labelled this as a question. If my suggestion works for you, please let me know and I'll close the question as answered.

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@eci-aashish I gave you the options you were likely missing in your pex command line (--layout packed --venv --venv-site-packages-copies). I'm going to assume the silence means your question is answered and close. Speak up if not.

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