[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app doesn't work with virtualenv on Leopard

[Christopher Barker]

Gary Bernhardt wrote:
> I can't seem to get py2app to build an app in a virtualenv on Leopard.
>  I find
> it hard to believe that py2app doesn't work with virtualenv,

Why? it was written before virtualenv existed, and I don't know that 
anyone has tested it with before -- I"d like to be able to do it, 
though, so thanks for trying!

>     raise ValueError('%r does not exist' % (pathname,))
> ValueError: '/Users/grb/py2app-test/env/bin/../lib/libpython2.5.dylib'
> does not exist

It looks like py2app is looking for the main python lib inside your 
virtualenv location, when it should be looking in the main python location.

I don't know how py2app decides where to look, but it looks like it's 
expecting it to be somewhere relative to the bin directory. You may be 
able to fake it out by putting a bunch of extra symlinks in your virtual 
env, but clearly, py2app should figure out where to look in a different 
place.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

-Chris



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