I believe that the main difference between running an application from macOS’s terminal and via clicking on it is that clicking on it runs the application in a very bare environment with almost no environment variables so that your application can’t find the home directory or the current encoding/locale and any application which it is supposed to find in $PATH will be invisible to it. I’m afraid the best I can offer for debugging is to wrap your code in something like the block below then inspect /tmp/error-message.txt to see what the problem really is.
import traceback try: # Your code here.except BaseException as ex: with open("/tmp/error-message.txt", "w") as f: traceback.print_exc(file=f) raise If you find that that file never gets written, it’s probably macOS’s gatekeeper blocking your application from running. -- 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 pyinstaller+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/ebb529fb-701b-4156-8229-fcf2592cbd9fn%40googlegroups.com.