[Pythonmac-SIG] Building an app with dependencies

[Christopher Barker]

Alexandre Quessy wrote:
> I am trying to build a Python Mac OS X application that has quite a
> lot of dependencies. We rely on wx, appscript, objc, zope, twisted and
> more.

That can be a challenge, I'm not sure how well all of those are 
supported by py2app recipes -- but some are!


> Below I provide my setup.py script.

You've included a while bunch of stuff by ahnd. In general, you don't 
want to do that. Py2app examines your code and tries to include 
everything you need -- it does fail on dynamically imported modules, 
however. Try running py2app with no explicit packages or modules 
included first, then add just those that py2app doesn't pick up by itself.

 > I am trying to use py2app
> (version py2app-0.3.6-py2.4.egg)

you'll want the latest version. try:

$ easy_install -U py2app

> I am using Tiger, but I would like this to work also on Leopard,

If you build on 10.4, it should run fine on 10.5 (I get my cats 
confused). Make sure you use the python.org Framework build of python.

Once you've tried a new py2app and simpler setup.py, then ask here for 
more help, if you still need it.

-Chris




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