Freezing PySide on OSX

[RyanHope]

I am not sure if this is unique to PySide but when my PySide app gets frozen by bbfreeze the modulegraph pulls in the proper PySide.Qt.so files but it fails to grab the deps of these files, libpyside and libshiboken*. I have to add something like the following to fix up my build:

def find_n_fix_missing(libs):
    missing = []
    for f in libs:
        output = subprocess.Popen(['otool', '-XL', f], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
        for line in output.splitlines():
            libpath = line.strip().split(" ")[0]
            if libpath != f and libpath[0] != "/" and libpath[0] != "@":
                if not libpath in missing and not '.framework' in libpath:
                    missing.append(libpath)
                    shutil.copy(os.path.join('/usr/lib', libpath), libpath)
                subprocess.Popen(['install_name_tool', '-change', libpath, "@executable_path/" + libpath, f])
    if missing:
        find_n_fix_missing(missing)

os.chdir(freezer.distdir)
find_n_fix_missing(glob.glob("*.so") + glob.glob("*.dylib"))

[schmir]

Strictly speaking bbfreeze doesn't support OS X. I once wanted to add support for it, but lost all interest. Why don't you use py2app?

[RyanHope]

Well i've never used macholib or modulegraph but I am skilled enough that I can probably help support OSX on bbfreeze. I need to make builds for OSX, Windows and Linux so I would rather not use multiple build systems.

[schmir]

ok, part of the above should then be implemented in bbfreeze.getdeps. please do that and open a proper pull request.

Doesn't pyinstaller / cxFreeze already do what you want?

[RyanHope]

I tried cx_freeze in the past and again recently, it has so many issues. I like the use of modulegraph and the support for pkg_resources in bbfreeze. Your project seems much cleaner.

[schmir]

ok. then go ahead!

[schmir]

I'm closing this one. OS X isn't supported.