[Pythonmac-SIG] Running "freeze" on non-framework Python/universal binary issues

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

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> Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>> On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
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>>> Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>>>> The other question is why the heck are you using a non-framework  
>>>> build?
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>>> Because I'm trying to package an application that builds against X11
>>> Tkinter.
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>> Rebuilding Python entirely seems pretty silly... it's way easier  
>> to just
>> rebuild the _tkinter extension. You could even do it in your py2app
>> setup.py. Just copy the sources from python. You'll probably need  
>> to do
>> some fiddling in your main script if DISPLAY isn't set though.
>>
>> from setuptools import setup, Extension
>>
>> extensions = [
>>     Extension('_tkinter', ['_tkinter.c', 'tkappinit.c'],
>>         define_macros=[('WITH_APPINIT', 1)],
>>         include_dirs=['/usr/X11R6/include'],
>>         library_dirs=['/usr/X11R6/lib'],
>>         libraries=['tcl8.4', 'tk8.4', 'X11'],
>>     ),
>> ]
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>> setup(
>>     app=['MyApp.py'],
>>     extensions=extensions,
>>     setup_requires=['py2app'],
>> )
>>
>>
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> I've already built Python to support X11 Tkinter, so that's not an  
> issue.
>
> I finally got the built-in freeze tools to work (as a universal  
> binary)
> and am running my app inside an application bundle. It uses an
> AppleScript launcher stub to set the DISPLAY and start up X11.app.
> There's some jiggering that has to be done with the installation of
> Tcl/Tk inside the app bundle so the frozen binary sees things  
> correctly,
> but it's not too hard. After I've polished this up a bit and have
> released something I will document it somewhere.

You wouldn't need to do all the jiggering or rebuilding of things if  
you had just swapped out _tkinter.so.

If I were doing it I'd check for DISPLAY and look at the output of "/ 
usr/X11R6/bin/xauth list" to see if X11 is running. If not, then  
start X11 and wait for ~/.Xauthority to show up.

Would probably be faster than going through AppleScript, and the how  
to documentation would be a heck of a lot shorter.

-bob