Re: [Pyobjc-dev] PyObjC with PyInstaller

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 9 May, 2011, at 0:57, Trevor Bentley wrote:

> 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 haven't used PyInstaller, and don't even know what it is.

> 
> 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:
> 
> ------------------------------
>  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
> ------------------------------
> 
> Any information on this would help!  I'm willing to hack around dynamic
> loading entirely if I can figure out a reasonable way.

Does PyInstaller include package data? There should be bridgesupport files in the python package for Cocoa frameworks, that there should be a file named  PyObjC.bridgesupport next to Foundation/__init__.py (and simularly for other frameworks).

Ronald
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Trevor
> 
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