Newbie Failing at deployment: py2app (and fbs) failure!

SAMBERPE10683 | 2021-04-09 17:57:30 UTC | #1

Hi Guys!

Can someone recommend the easiest way to deploy a pyqt program on a mac? I thought that py2app was the way to go but have spent the last two days failing. I stripped out ALL my code to the barest of bones (see below) but although it runs in Alias mode and seems to build a "redistributable" OK. It consistently crashes (program has "quit unexpectedly"). See below.

All my code does is load a ui function & displays it (and YES, I did remember to add the ui file to the setup.py file before running "python setup.py py2app".

Could it be that maybe my fancy (sorta) new-ish M1 ARM Macbook Air is causing the trouble? Do I need to force Rosetta emulation? I'm using py2app 0.23. Mac OS 11.2.3 Big Sur Python 3.8.8

I must say that it is VERY frustrating to get your program working and NOT being able to deliver it! I'm going to try with python 3.7, 3.6, & 3.5 before trying fbs again and then..... I may have to give up on python GUI stuff (and go back to Matlab) if I can't deploy.

I apologize since this isn't really about pyqt but I'm a desperate man.

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############# SIMPLE CODE

import sys from PyQt5 import QtWidgets as qtw from PyQt5 import uic

Ui_LoginForm, baseClass = uic.loadUiType('test.ui')

class MainWindow(baseClass):

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    # Create the GUI by processing qt designer file
    self.ui = Ui_LoginForm()
    self.ui.setupUi(self)

    # Show
    self.show()

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ############################################################################## if name == 'main': app = qtw.QApplication(sys.argv) w = MainWindow() sys.exit(app.exec_())

Crash Report: Process: test_py2app1 [5883] Path: /Users/USER/*/test_py2app1.app/Contents/MacOS/test_py2app1 Identifier: org.pythonmac.unspecified.test_py2app1 Version: ??? Code Type: X86-64 (Translated) Parent Process: ??? [1] Responsible: test_py2app1 [5883] User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2021-04-09 13:33:05.467 -0400 OS Version: macOS 11.2.3 (20D91) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: 7B2BBD14-3FBF-0466-975E-86968FC3233F

SAMBERPE10683 | 2021-04-09 19:48:41 UTC | #2

OK.... Never mind! I THINK I got it working. The problem apparently had something to do with anaconda. I created a virtual environment with "python -m venv DanEnv", pip installed everything, and ran all the usual py2app commands and it appears to run OK (at least on my Mac).

Dan