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    copied!<p>I want to create a GUI application which should work on Windows and Mac. For this I've chosen Python.</p> <p>The problem is on Mac OS X.</p> <p><strong>There are 2 tools to generate an ".app" for Mac: py2app and pyinstaller.</strong></p> <ol> <li>py2app is pretty good, but it adds the source code in the package. I don't want to share the code with the final users.</li> <li>Pyinstaller generates UNIX executable, so how to run it on Mac? I created a bundles with this executable, but the resulted ".app" is not working.</li> </ol> <p><strong>The questions are:</strong></p> <ol> <li>How to configure py2app to include the source code in the executable, so the final users will not have access to my program?</li> <li>How to convert UNIX executable to Mac ".app" ?</li> <li>Is there a way to compile Python code with GCC ?</li> <li>In Windows it's easy, I created an "exe" file from Python code and it works. Is it possible to create a single file "app" for Mac ?</li> </ol> <p>P.S. I use two computers (Windows and for Mac), Python 2.7, wxPython, py2exe, py2app and pyinstaller.</p> <p>Also, I have checked out these sites: </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html" rel="noreferrer">http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pyinstaller.org/export/develop/project/doc/Manual.html?format=raw" rel="noreferrer">http://www.pyinstaller.org/export/develop/project/doc/Manual.html?format=raw</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pyinstaller.org/wiki/Features/MacOsCompatibility" rel="noreferrer">http://www.pyinstaller.org/wiki/Features/MacOsCompatibility</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/2933/an-executable-python-app">http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/2933/an-executable-python-app</a></li> </ul>
 

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