Comments on: How to make standalone OS X application bundles from PyQt apps using py2app

By: George

George — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:21:49 +0000

Hi,
i’m trying to create standalone app with wxWidgets, following your instruction i found that:
1. select_python
2. py2app doesn’t create working App.
My system configuration is Mac OS X 10.7.2, Python 2.71 and Python 2.5, wxWidgets, py2app

By: neil

neil — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:27:15 +0000

Hmm. I’m stuck
sudo port -v install py25-pyq

results in

Error: Port py25-pyq not found
To report a bug, see

How did you make that?

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By: Stephen Hartley

Stephen Hartley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:49:33 +0000

After fixing (downgrading) serf, you may still see this error when using py2applet:
/usr/bin/strip: for architecture ppc64 object: …/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Python malformed object (load command 3 cmdsize not a multiple of 8)

To fix this, install python25 with +universal, e.g.
sudo port install python25 +universal

By: Stephen Hartley

Stephen Hartley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:07:11 +0000

BTW, if you are trying this now, you’ll see an error trying to install py25-macholib-devel, but I found that if install revision 46161 of serf after python25, then py25-macholib-devel will build and install OK.

By: roberto

roberto — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:11:42 +0000

thank you aral.

do you happen to have _any_ solution to the plugins dependency problem (i.e. the fact that plugins do not correctly get linked, and for instance using webkit to display pages will result in images not showing)?

By: Lukáš 'Spike' Polívka

Lukáš 'Spike' Polívka — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:40:02 +0000

Thanks for this guide, however…!

1) Building Qt & PyQt via MacPorts is currently broken, but it’s quite easy to workaround.

2) I have the same problem as riklaunim. Before I followed your guide, I had installed everything by myself (Qt .dmg bundle from QtSoftware), compiled sip and PyQt… And it was enough to import individual PyQt4.s in my app. Then py2app picked up only the frameworks needed.

But with your guide, it doesn’t pick them up unless I import PyQt4._qt. I don’t get it. When I try specify the frameworks by hand in setup.py, the frameworks cannot be found. Eh.

By: riklaunim

riklaunim — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:35:30 +0000

I’ve build a binary with py2app, but PyQt4._qt is pulling redundan’t Qt components like QtDesigner, xml, dbus, network etc. which app doesn’t need. only QtCore and QtGui. If I remove PyQt4._qt from the list then the binary is small, but it doesn’t want to work, as it doesn’t find PyQt4._qt :)

Is there a way to exclude unneeded PyQt4/Qt4 components without breaking the build?