Hi everyone. Hope you are all well in these unfortunate times.
Hoping for some advice please with regards to using cx-freeze on a mac.
I have created an arcade game (named TheJuggler.py) using python and pygame
which works fine, and am now looking to create an exec file as well as an
application/dmg file for distribution. I have created the following
setup.py file:
import cx_Freeze
executables = [cx_Freeze.Executable("TheJuggler.py")]
cx_Freeze.setup(
name="TheJuggler",
options={"build_exe": {"packages":["pygame"]}},
executables = executables
)
I use the terminal to navigate to the folder where my .py files are, and
type python setup.py build
This gives the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 1, in <module>
import cx_Freeze
File
"/Users/martingarbutt/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/cx_Freeze/__init__.py",
line 7, in <module>
from cx_Freeze.macdist import bdist_dmg, bdist_mac
File
"/Users/martingarbutt/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/cx_Freeze/macdist.py",
line 1, in <module>
from distutils.core import Command, DistutilsFileError
ImportError: cannot import name DistutilsFileError
I understand a mac has pyton 2.7 installed by default. I also have python
3.7 installed. With this in mind, I instead type: python3 setup.py build
at the terminal. (Note the 3). This works fine and generates a
build/exe.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3/ folder containing TheJuggler.exe. It runs
OK.
I now want to create a mac application proper (including a dmg) file so
others can install TheJuggler on their macs. I type: python3 setup.py
bdist_dmg at the terminal. In the build folder I now see a
TheJuggler-0.0.0 application as well as TheJuggler-0.0.0 dmg file.
However, clicking either of these brings up the following error window:
*TheJuggler-0.0.0 cannot be opened because of a problem.*
Check with the developer to make sure TheJuggler-0.0.0 works with this
version of macOS
Btw, my os is macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. I have the latest cx-freeze
installed under Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages (6.1) as well as 2.7.
Gtreafe
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