Macnolo

Macnolo is a tool to create Mac Application package (.app file) from python scripts including all its dependencies. Macnolo gets all dependencies from brew, pip. The package definition are written in a json file.

JSON File

{
    "app_name": "Application name",
    "version": "Application version",
    "identifier": "Application identifier, generaly the application site backward, like com.github.macnolo",
    "icon": "icns icon file path",
    "packages": [list of brew packages],
    "ignore_packages": [list of brew packages to ignored],
    "mac_version": "version of macos",
    "pip_packages": [list of pip packages],
    "commands": [
        list of shell commands. the commands are run inside the application resource folder.
    ],
    "app_package": {
        "source":{
            "type": "url or file",
            "path": "https or file path",
            "sha": "sha256 of file (not necessary)",
            "patches": [list of patch files]
        },
        "start_script": "start script path",
        "build_commands": [
            build command to be run inside the application, like build some C or Cython modules.
        ]
    },
    "cleanup": [
        "list of files, directories or glob patterns to be removed"
    ]
}

Usage

In terminal run:

$ python3 macnolo package_path.json

It'll generate the .app file inside the package_path.json folder.