[Pythonmac-SIG] Problems with py2app for i386

[Bob Ippolito]

On 10/29/06, Chris Van Bael <chris.van.bael at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building an application on a PPC Mini in Python with PyGame.
> When I run "python setup.py py2app" I get a .app file made that runs
> on my (and other) PPC Macs.  But it fails on Intel Macs.
> I presume these last lines I get have something to do with it:
> "
> /usr/bin/strip: for architecture i386 object:
> /Users/chrisvanbael/Childsplay/Sources/childsplay-0.84.1/dist/childsplay.app/Contents/MacOS/childsplay
> malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD
> command 10 can't byte swap it)
> /usr/bin/strip: for architecture i386 object:
> /Users/chrisvanbael/Childsplay/Sources/childsplay-0.84.1/dist/childsplay.app/Contents/MacOS/python
> malformed object (unknown flavor for flavor number 0 in LC_UNIXTHREAD
> command 13 can't byte swap it)
> stripping saved 11991384 bytes (12298552 / 24289936)
> "
>
> Any ideas where my problem is; is it in my code or a problem of py2app
> or the strip application?
> Do I need to use the no-strip option or prefer-ppc for a universal binary?

It looks like you probably didn't install py2app properly. Perform a
full uninstallation and follow the installation instructions in the
documentation.

http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html#installation

-bob