Sorry, my last email sent in error before ending with '*Grateful' for any
help you can give. MANY thanks. All the best, Martin *
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 10:17, Martin Garbutt <martingarb...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> 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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