[Bitpim-devel] Mac bundle procedure....

[Steven P. <n9...@n9...>]

Okay, I've managed to get a Macintosh bundle built that runs on a  
system other than my own (although only tested on two Panther (10.3)  
systems).

Changes required (thanks to Kevin Ollivier for this one!):
> Looking at the bitpim source, my guess is that this line is causing  
> the problem:
>
> resourcedirectory=os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv 
> [0]), 'resources'))
>
> Using sys.argv like this can cause problems on OS X, which sends some  
> extra args in when launched from the Finder. I'd suggest trying it  
> with the following:
>
> resourcedirectory=os.path.abspath(os.path.join(sys.path[0]),  
> 'resources'))
>
> That is how I determine the root directory of my program, which runs  
> on Windows, Linux and Mac.

  I made the changes outlined above in guihelper.py and bpaudio.py, the  
only places I found them.

  Also, here is the macbuild.py script I used (stealing enough from  
distbuild.py to make it work):

import bundlebuilder, os, glob
packageroot = "/Users/n9yty/my_cvs/bitpim/bitpim"
myapp = bundlebuilder.AppBuilder(verbosity=1)
myapp.mainprogram = os.path.join(packageroot, "bp.py")
myapp.standalone = 1
myapp.name = "bitpim"
myapp.strip = 1
myapp.includePackages.append("sha")
exts=[ '*.xy', '*.png', '*.ttf', '*.wav', '*.jpg', '*.css', '*.htb',  
'*.pdc' ]
for wildcard in exts:
     for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(packageroot, 'resources',  
wildcard)):
         myapp.files.append( (file, os.path.join("Contents",  
"Resources", 'resources', os.path.basename(file))) )
for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(packageroot, 'com_*.py')):
     myapp.resources.append(file)
myapp.libs.append("/usr/local/lib/libwx_mac-2.4.0.dylib")
myapp.libs.append("/usr/local/lib/libwx_mac-2.4.0.rsrc")
myapp.libs.append("/usr/local/lib/libwx_mac_gl-2.4.0.dylib")
myapp.setup()
myapp.build()

  There is, undoubtedly, a cleaner way, and this could likely be  
integrated into distbuild.py. The odd line in there (for me) is the  
myapp.files.append() bit which takes a tuple specifying the file to  
add, and the path inside the MacOS X bundle to put it. I'm sure that  
makes perfect sense to someone used to tuples. :^)

  The downside is that since this bundles the libwx_mac_* and wxPython  
shared libraries as well as the bitpim stuff, it weights in at just  
over 16MB. But it *IS* a drag-n-drop install application.

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