mac app from a python script?

[Barry]

> On 26 Jan 2022, at 05:17, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
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>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 6:41 PM Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 2:23 PM Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On 25 Jan 2022, at 02:56, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 1:37 PM Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do not have experience with great, but you might try pyinstaller.
>>>>> I use it to make a PyQt Mac app successfully.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It’s command line plus setup script.
>>>> 
>>>> I wound up doing:
>>>> 1) pyinstaller, as normal, but this created a broken all-encompassing binary of my script.  At least it gave me the metadata I needed though.
>>> 
>>> You mean it created a .app bundle?
>>> 
>>> That is the way that macOS makes it trivia to install apps
>>> Just by drag and drop in /Applications.
>> 
>> Yes, it created an hcm.app for me.  But the executable it created didn't work.  Hence the hack.
> 
> More specifically:
> $ /Applications/hcm.app/Contents/MacOS/hcm --gui
> cmd output started 2022 Tue Jan 25 09:00:33 PM PST
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/Applications/hcm.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 146, in <module>
>     _run()
>   File "/Applications/hcm.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 129, in _run
>     exec(compile(source, path, "exec"), globals(), globals())
>   File "/Applications/hcm.app/Contents/Resources/hcm.py", line 1950, in <module>
>     import gi
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 664, in _load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
>   File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
>   File "gi/__init__.pyc", line 40, in <module>
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 664, in _load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
>   File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
>   File "gi/_gi.pyc", line 14, in <module>
>   File "gi/_gi.pyc", line 10, in __load
>   File "imp.pyc", line 342, in load_dynamic
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 664, in _load_unlocked
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 627, in _load_backward_compatible
>   File "/Applications/hcm.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 36, in load_module
>     return imp.load_module(
>   File "imp.pyc", line 244, in load_module
>   File "imp.pyc", line 216, in load_package
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 710, in _load
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'
> 2022-01-25 21:00:34.576 hcm[62695:1322031] hcm Error
> ^C^\Quit: 3
> above cmd output done    2022 Tue Jan 25 09:00:42 PM PST
> dstromberg at Daniels-Mini:~/src/home-svn/hcm/trunk x86_64-apple-darwin20.6.0 61933
> 
> $ file /Applications/hcm.app/Contents/MacOS/hcm
> cmd output started 2022 Tue Jan 25 09:00:54 PM PST
> /Applications/hcm.app/Contents/MacOS/hcm: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

It’s intended to be started as an app.

What if you double click the app? Does it work?
Also you can use the open command to run use the app name you give it.

> 
> But if I replace /Applications/hcm.app/Contents/MacOS/hcm with a symlink to a wrapper shell script, hcm runs fine from the Applications menu.
> 
> It seems that gi.repository.Gtk applications are not packaged correctly by pyinstaller and py2app.  Some Python modules require a little assistance to be packaged up into a Mach-O executable neatly by such tools.  But it's just not that important to me to have a Mach-O of my app.

Understood, was just curious.

Barry