[Pythonmac-SIG] Help with Py2app

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Charlie Clark

> I'm trying to update the setup script for the LinkChecker project
> http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/ because it no longer builds the app and
> does not work reliably in a virtualenv.

darn...

> I am hoping to build a standalone
> app and package it as a DMG as the project author no longer
> has access to Apple hardware.

thanks for contributing in this way!

> although `bin/python setup.py py2app` should in theory be
> sufficient.

it should, yes, though at times I've had to add explicte
most-processing code -- I usually do it in pyton in teh setup.py, but
in some ways makefile might be easier if you're more familiar with
shell scripting. I also use a shell script to build the dmg.


> tried to break out the py2app part into a separate script.

> and followed the py2app documentation it became clear that the script needs
> to be updated to use setuptools, at least for the extensions.

I don't know that py2app reslies on setuptools for anything.

> LinkChecker is a QT project and needs Python-SIP. Unfortunately I haven't
> worked out how the recipe works. Does the py2app automatically detect the
> dependency and build and package the shared libraries automatically?

it shoujld, yes -- the idea of recipies is that they "jsut work" for
the end user. If it's not, then it's a bug -- hopefully someone here
can help you find and fix it.

please post:

your setup.py

the errors you get when running the .app

Also, what I usually do is look inside the generated bundle and see
what's there -- if you find what's missing, you can often figure out
how to fix it.

you can unzip the site-packages zip file, to see what's in there.

HTH,
 -Chris


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>
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