[Pythonmac-SIG] Xcode build button disabled, plus build failure

[Jeffrey E. Forcier]

Greets all,

Just started learning PyObjC/Cocoa/XCode/IB over the past week, and  
ran into the same issue. Turns out that just creating a Custom  
Executable pointing at the py2app build location will do the trick.

Also, I ran into an issue where any default PyObjC project will fail  
on build (either in XCode or via python setup.py py2app manually).  
Found a solution to that too. I forget the specifics, but somewhere  
in py2app's source it expects a certain directory structure which is  
slightly different from whatever the default PyObjC template sets up.

The solution, for me, is to remove localization from the nib file,  
e.g. do a Get Info on MainMenu.nib in XCode, and click the 'Remove  
All Localizations' button. This has the effect of moving MainMenu.nib  
from $PROJECT_DIR/English.lproj/ to $PROJECT_DIR/.

After making that change, the project builds successfully.

Regards,
Jeff

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