Building it myself fails (Mac)

[Manuel-Sensate]

I am trying to build a release myself (actually my target is to get a notarized build that works in Catalina), but I run into this.

88 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.6 88 INFO: Python: 3.7.7 96 INFO: Platform: Darwin-19.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit 96 DEBUG: Testing for UPX ... 108 INFO: UPX is available. 109 DEBUG: script: nodemcu-pyflasher.py 109 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths ['/Users/*user*/Downloads/nodemcu-pyflasher-master'] 110 INFO: checking Analysis 118 INFO: Appending 'datas' from .spec 122 INFO: checking PYZ 125 INFO: checking PKG 127 INFO: Building because toc changed 127 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg 537 DEBUG: Compiling /usr/local/Cellar/pyinstaller/3.6/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyiboot01_bootstrap.py 538 DEBUG: Compiling /usr/local/Cellar/pyinstaller/3.6/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyiboot01_bootstrap.py 539 DEBUG: Compiling /Users/*user*/Downloads/nodemcu-pyflasher-master/nodemcu-pyflasher.py 539 DEBUG: Compiling /Users/*user*/Downloads/nodemcu-pyflasher-master/nodemcu-pyflasher.py 2028 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg completed successfully. 2031 INFO: Bootloader /usr/local/Cellar/pyinstaller/3.6/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/bootloader/Darwin-64bit/runw 2031 INFO: checking EXE 2033 INFO: Building because toc changed 2033 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc 2033 INFO: Appending archive to EXE /Users/*user*/Downloads/nodemcu-pyflasher-master/dist/NodeMCU-PyFlasher 2037 INFO: Fixing EXE for code signing /Users/*user*/Downloads/nodemcu-pyflasher-master/dist/NodeMCU-PyFlasher 2040 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc completed successfully. 2045 INFO: checking BUNDLE On your own risk, you can use the option --noconfirm to get rid of this question. 2046 INFO: Removing dir /Users/*user*/Downloads/nodemcu-pyflasher-master/dist/NodeMCU-PyFlasher-4.0.app 2047 INFO: Building BUNDLE BUNDLE-00.toc 2056 INFO: moving BUNDLE data files to Resource directory Not enough arguments. Invoke with --help for help. mv: rename NodeMCU-PyFlasher-4.0 0.0.0.dmg to dist/NodeMCU-PyFlasher-4.0.dmg: No such file or directory

My approach: I first installed the environment + requirements like you described in the readme (seems to work), but this happens when i try the build.sh script.

trying to start the binary afterwards in the dist directory i get dist % ./NodeMCU-PyFlasher Traceback (most recent call last): File "nodemcu-pyflasher.py", line 3, in <module> File "/usr/local/Cellar/pyinstaller/3.6/libexec/lib/python3.7/site-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py", line 623, in exec_module exec(bytecode, module.__dict__) File "Main.py", line 3, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'wx' [87475] Failed to execute script nodemcu-pyflasher

Any ideas?

[Manuel-Sensate]

Any hints on what I am doing wrong would be appreciated.

[aLoneStrider]

It seems you did install python wx on a different python version. Are you able to double check the python version and wx?

[sshah254]

Hi,

I had a similar problem on my macOS Catalina 10.15.5.

I did the following to make it work (all the commands were run in terminal from the directory that contained the source code, in my case, from /Users/ss/Desktop/ESP8266/nodemcu-pyflasher):

1. I am using the 4.0 master branch from GitHub from this weekend (06/14/2020). I edited the Main.py file and replaced lines 222 and 301 as follows:

222 - #serial_boxsizer.Add(reload_button, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT, 20) replaced - serial_boxsizer.Add(reload_button, 0) 301 - #flashmode_label_boxsizer.Add(icon, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT, 20) replaced - flashmode_label_boxsizer.Add(icon, 0)

2. Manually built it using python3 -m PyInstaller -w -n NodeMCU-PyFlasher nodemcu-pyflasher.py (python -m PyInstaller -w -n .... OR pyinstaller -w -n ... should work fine too, but ymmv).
3. Created two directories that were causing the app to fail (dist/NodeMCU-PyFlasher.app/Contents/MacOS/Tk and dist/NodeMCU-PyFlasher.app/Contents/MacOS/tcl). You may not need these, am not sure if this is an issue with my setup or not.
4. Generated my own "NodeMCU-PyFlasher" code sign certificate in KeyChain.
5. Signed all the binaries using that certificate. find dist/NodeMCU-PyFlasher.app -perm +111 -type f -or -type l | xargs -I file codesign -f -s NodeMCU-PyFlasher --deep file

After this, my NodeMCU-PyFlasher app launches just fine.

SS