Re: Frecobaldi 2 Mac OS X install guide

[Jean-Alexis Montignies]

Hi,

I've got a bit of experience on frescobaldi builds. I have started doing a .app 
bundle for Mac, but never succeeded and I am slow because of the low available 
time for this project.

So if you want to continue upon what I have discovered, I'll switch to more 
technical matter. (I'm CCing this message to lilypond-user, but I think it 
would be appropriate for the frescobaldi list)

For macports, the only package missing before frescobaldi if py-poppler.

I have a frozen folder here that works and even results in frescobaldi using 
the retina display (texts only but it's a great enhancement). I have played 
with the setup and freeze scripts.

cx_freeze now have a bdist_mac target, which would result in a .app bundle.
cx_freeze installed from macports is too old to have this target, so I had to 
modify the port file to get the last version. I'll send it to macports.

Just modifying the script setup.py does not create a working .app. cx_freeze 
must have missed some dependencies, I don't know which ones.
Modifying the freeze.py to remove windows specific things does create a folder 
with apparently everything needed (and even some things not needed). But from 
there I don't know how to invoke cx_freeze to create a bundle.

Jean-Alexis

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On 6 juin 2013, at 17:03, Wilbert Berendsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Op 06-06-13 12:35, Andrew Bernard schreef:
>> As a result of this thread, I have decided the need is there for a macports 
>> bundle for frescobaldi, one that includes all the dependencies with no 
>> headaches. This seems to be what people want, short of a Mac GUI installed. 
>> I'll start in on that project tomorrow.
> That'd be great!
> 
> Like I wrote earlier: I built such an installer for Windows (because I have 
> Windows on my small laptop, besides Linux) using cx_Freeze. The script is 
> freeze.py. You could look at the setup scripts for other PyQt4 apps that 
> include a Mac OS X installer with all dependencies contained, e.g. by 
> searching GitHub for 'py2app' in code, etc.
> 
> If you could create build script that builds an installer, it can simply be 
> run to create a Mac OS installer for every release. I'd be happy to have it 
> in the download section then!
> 
> Thanks for all the efforts!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Wilbert (Fresc. dev).
> 
> -- 
> Wilbert Berendsen
> http://www.wilbertberendsen.nl/
> 
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