To recap. PyInstaller makes a nice Mac OS bundle out of PyQt program. However for me it won't start because "it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "cocoa"." This Python3, PyQt5.4, MacOS 10.10.1 "Yosemite".
I've read a bit more about "deploying" Qt apps on Mac OS. Supposedly Qt looks for its plugins on several paths. One of them is the executable path, which ought to be myapp.app/Contents/MacOS. However, copying libqcocoa.dylib into MacOS did nothing. Qt's distro contains the path plugins/platforms/libqcocoa.dylib. So I put libqcocoa.dylib in the following places: my.app/Contents/MacOS/libqcocoa.dylib my.app/Contents/MacOS/platforms/libqcocoa.dylib my.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/platforms/libqcocoa.dylib my.app/Contents/Resources/libqcocoa.dylib my.app/Contents/Resources/platforms/libqcocoa.dylib my.app/Contents/Resources/plugins/platforms/libqcocoa.dylib Nope. Still doesn't find it. Supposedly it looks where env var QT_PLUGIN_PATH points. I exported that with values of "." and of the complete path to MacOS and of the complete path to Resources. Nope. Just for laughs I also exported QT_PLUGIN_PATH with the value of the Qt distribution folder on this system. Nope. Qt supposedly looks in the executable's path for a file qt.conf. I made a file qt.conf containing [Paths] Plugins=. and put that in MacOS. Nope. Then I put the same file in Resources. Nope. So that's where it stands now. If I can think of another variation I'll try it. Dave Cortesi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
