[Pyobjc-dev] PyObjC with PyInstaller

[Trevor B. <mr...@gm...>]

Hello,

I know this is more of a question for the PyInstaller mailing list, but
I wanted to check here and see if anyone has successfully used PyObjC
with PyInstaller?

I'm trying to create a PyInstaller package with PyTTSx (text-to-speech
module), which uses PyObjC, but it seems that some dynamic imports
related to the PyObjC "bridgesupport" module are failing.  The
PyInstaller package is made successfully, but I get the following
exception at runtime:

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  File
"/Users/<path>/pyinstaller/test/build/pyi.darwin/test/outPYZ1.pyz/pyttsx.engine",
line 45, in __init__
  File
"/Users/<path>/pyinstaller/test/build/pyi.darwin/test/outPYZ1.pyz/pyttsx.driver",
line 64, in __init__
  File "/Users/<path>/pyinstaller/PyInstaller/iu.py", line 431, in
importHook
    mod = _self_doimport(nm, ctx, fqname)
...
... <lots of iu.py stuff>
...
  File
"/Users/<path>/pyinstaller/test/build/pyi.darwin/test/outPYZ1.pyz/CoreFoundation",
line 19, in <module>
  File
"/Users/<path>/pyinstaller/test/build/pyi.darwin/test/outPYZ1.pyz/objc._bridgesupport",
line 156, in initFrameworkWrapper
  File
"/Users/<path>/pyinstaller/test/build/pyi.darwin/test/outPYZ1.pyz/objc._bridgesupport",
line 58, in _parseBridgeSupport
ValueError: Don't know CF type for typestr '^{__CFAllocator=}', cannot
create special wrapper
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Any information on this would help!  I'm willing to hack around dynamic
loading entirely if I can figure out a reasonable way.

Thanks,

Trevor