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MalloyDelacroix / DownloaderForReddit

The Downloader for Reddit is a GUI application with some advanced features to extract and download submitted content from reddit.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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macOS support? #166

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 3 years ago

Would it be possible to make this software run on macOS?

zacker150 commented 3 years ago

The main issue is that you need a Mac to develop software for a Mac.

ghost commented 3 years ago

I've built it from source, and it works. How did you package the app into an exe?

MalloyDelacroix commented 3 years ago

We use Pyinstaller to package the app. There is a script in the main project directory named "build_venv.spec". This is the Pyinstaller spec file used to build the app. For more information on the build process, here is the Pyinstaller manual.

Due to what zacker150 pointed out about needing a Mac to develop for MacOS, building an executable for MacOS is not an issue that is likely to be resolved. However; it should function properly when built from source, except for a few display quirks.