I have an application in a python script my_app.py
and want to make a standalone executable out of it on a MacOS (10.14). Following the video-tutorial here, I entered sequentially the following commmands:
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv --system-site-packages
source venv/bin/activate
pip install py2app
cd /path/to/my_app.py
python setup.py py2app -A
with the following setup.py
file:
from setuptools import setup
APP = ["my_app.py"]
DATA_FILES = []
OPTIONS = {
"argv_emulation": True,
"packages": ["certifi"],
}
setup(
app = APP,
data_files = DATA_FILES,
options = {"py2app": OPTIONS},
setup_requires = ["py2app"]
)
but got the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 13, in <module>
setup_requires = ["py2app"]
File "/Users/mymac/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 145, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File "/Users/mymac/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/Users/mymac/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/Users/mymac/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/distutils/dist.py", line 984, in run_command
cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
File "/Users/mymac/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
self.finalize_options()
File "/Users/mymac/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/py2app/build_app.py", line 567, in finalize_options
if isinstance(self.plist, plistlib.Dict):
AttributeError: module 'plistlib' has no attribute 'Dict'
With that error message, I found that github page and typed the following code:
brew install qt # will install qt-5.x.x
brew install libxml2
make qt5py3
python3 labelImg.py
python3 labelImg.py [IMAGE_PATH] [PRE-DEFINED CLASS FILE]
As a side note, if mssing pyrcc5 or lxml, try
pip3 install pyqt5 lxml
However after entering the line make qt5py3
, I get:
make: *** No rule to make target `qt5py3'. Stop.
I also tried the following commands:
brew install python3
pip install pipenv
pipenv --three
pipenv shell
pip install py2app
pip install PyQt5 lxml
make qt5py3
rm -rf build dist
python setup.py py2app -A
mv "dist/labelImg.app" /Applications
But also got
make: *** No rule to make target `qt5py3'. Stop.
after entering the line make qt5py3
I posted an issue on github
What am I doing wrong?
plistlib.Dict
was available but not documented. In python 3.4 it was finally documented; also documented that it's deprecated since 3.0.In python 3.7 it is no longer documented and perhaps removed from
plistlib
library.This means that
py2app
currently not yet compatible with Python 3.7. I found this issue, it was reported half a year ago and resolved a few days later. The resolution is: upgradepy2app
to the latest version 0.15 with the following command :Verify version with