[Pythonmac-SIG] uniformative Error when launching app

[Geoffrey Irving]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Ronald Oussoren
<ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On 21 Sep, 2012, at 21:36, Geoffrey Irving <irving at naml.us> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to package up a mixed Python/C++ application using py2app.
>> My setup.py is
>>
>>    from setuptools import setup
>>    setup(app=['voxpopuli.py'],data_files=[],options=
>>      {'py2app'{'argv_emulation':True}},setup_requires=['py2app'])
>>
>> and I invoke py2app via
>>
>>    python setup.py py2app --no-strip --iconfile
>> /Users/irving/otherlab/other/bin/OLicon.icns --resources
>> /opt/local/lib/Resources/qt_menu.nib
>>
>> This completes without warnings or errors, but when I try to run the
>> resuling app a window pops up that simply says "voxpopuli Error". It
>> has an "Open Console" button, but the only console messages are
>>
>>    9/21/12 11:43:14.691 AM voxpopuli[52765]: voxpopuli Error
>>    9/21/12 11:43:15.926 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[158]:
>> ([0x0-0x177d77c].org.pythonmac.unspecified.voxpopuli[52765]) Exited
>> with code: 255
>>
>> Are there standard ways to get more information out of py2app to help
>> diagnosing this error?
>
> You can run the application from the commandline as "voxpopuli.app/Contents/MacOS/voxpopuli" and that should print the script output to the terminal window.

When I do that the app runs fine with no errors or warnings.

Geoffrey