[Pythonmac-SIG] Using getwcd() in a frozen app

[Smith, Jeff]

Unfortunately, bbfreeze doesn't even work for simple cases on Mac OS X:

Warning: don't know how to handle binary dependencies on this platform
(darwin)

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[mailto:pythonmac-sig-bounces+jsmith=medplus.com at python.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Using getwcd() in a frozen app

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Smith, Jeff wrote:
> Thanks...that did the trick.

good, it wasn't totally clear to me that that was quite what it did!

> In case you are interested in the context, we have an automated build 
> system that works across multiple platforms and use a frozen python 
> app for some things.  We freeze it to avoid having to install Python 
> on all the build machines.  We just added Mac to the list of platforms

> and the freezing tool that works on Linux and Windows (cx_Freeze) 
> doesn't work on Mac so I am using py2app for that platform.

It sounds like you are done, but just in case, you might look into
bbfreeze -- it works on all those platforms, and while it doesn't build
app bundles on OS-X, it may work well for your use.

-Chris

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