Can I run py2app on Windows?

Asked 17/10, 2012 at 15:33 Answered 21/5, 2022 at 15:52

I recently discovered that an outdated version of Python was causing my Wx app to run into errors.

I can't install Python 2.7.3 on my Mac, and when I tried it in a virtual machine, py2app was still "compiling" the app after running overnight (my Windows/Linux box has an ≈1GHz processor).

Is there a version of py2app that runs on Windows?

Birdlime answered 17/10, 2012 at 15:33 Comment(3)

are you looking for py2exe? py2exe.org – Underwrite 17/10, 2012 at 15:38

@Underwrite No, I'd like to build mac .app bundles on Windows – Birdlime 17/10, 2012 at 15:39

I'm also looking for some way to make .app bundles on a windows computer, but it sounds like that's not possible. – Rebbecarebbecca 20/10, 2012 at 23:0

According to the project page and the readme, py2app is directed at creating Mac apps out of python code. Obviously you won't be able to run the final product on a windows machine. But if the question is can you build the app on windows and run it on a mac, then the answer is still no, because if you go to the setup.py, it says 'Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X' and there are no forks for windows because it depends on some Mac SDK tools like /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk. Looks like you are out of luck. If you are desperate, try Virtual box to emulate a mac on your windows machine, or be content with a windows build with py2exe

Hypoacidity answered 4/1, 2013 at 18:17 Comment(1)

I discovered virtual Python environments, so that takes care of 2.7.3 on Mac. However, I don't even have a /Developer folder, and py2app runs fine, which is odd. Thanks for the answer, though. It's weird that nobody has ported it to Windows. – Birdlime 4/1, 2013 at 20:49

No, There's no way on earth you can run py2app on windows,py2app cannot create a Mac app bundle in windows because it's impossible to do so... Either hackintosh your pc or emulate a mac using QEMU,VMware or VirtualBox!

Epistemology answered 21/5, 2022 at 15:52 Comment(1)

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