py2app woes

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Post: #1

Jan 6, 2009 — 05:33 PM

I've been trying to get py2app up and running so I can package a game I made with pygame recently. However, I've been having a lot of trouble with it. I tried installing version 0.4.2 from here (that's the latest version, right?), and upon running "python setup.py install", it spits out this error:

Code:

Searching for modulegraph>=0.7.2dev

Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/modulegraph/

Reading http://undefined.org/python/#modulegraph

No local packages or download links found for modulegraph>=0.7.2dev

error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('modulegraph>=0.7.2dev')

So then, I tried using py2app 0.3.6 (from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2app/), and while it was able to install successfully, I tried running it with a setup.py script, and it failed with this error:

Code:

<snip>

File "build/bdist.macosx-10.3-fat/egg/macholib/MachO.py", line 178, in load

    raise ValueError("Unknown load command: %d" % (cmd_load.cmd,))

ValueError: Unknown load command: 27

I'm not sure if py2app is outdated, not maintained, or if I'm messing up somewhere. If others have gotten py2app to work (especially with pygame apps), how should I go about this? Or are there other ways of packaging a Python game?

EDIT: Oh, and I should also note that the "installer" that the py2app site mentions doesn't exist apparently, so I've been building it from the source each time.

EDIT 2: I guess I should also mention that I'm running Python 2.5 on OS X 10.5.5 with pygame 1.8.1 installed.

Since when was "Fred" a placeholder variable?

stevejohnson

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Post: #2

Jan 6, 2009 — 06:57 PM

Get easy_install and type "sudo easy_install -U py2app" into Terminal.

PyGame has its own py2app issues, though. You'll need to find a tutorial for it, or use the setup.py generator in py2app.

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Wowbagger

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Post: #3

Jan 6, 2009 — 10:27 PM

Thanks for the link -- that made my life much easier.

As for the pygame issues, I looked into it more, and apparently I needed an updated version of macholib ("macholib==dev") and pygame itself (the latest unstable release fixes the issue apparently).

Again, thanks for the help.

Since when was "Fred" a placeholder variable?

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